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HTMLAnchorElement: pathname property

The HTMLAnchorElement.pathname property is a string containing an initial '/' followed by the path of the URL not including the query string or fragment (or the empty string if there is no path).

Value

A string.

Examples

js

// An <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.pathname; // returns '/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-hyperlink-pathname-dev

Browser compatibility

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pathname 1 12
1Before Firefox 53, the pathname and search HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils properties returned the wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return '/x?a=true&b=false' and search would return '', rather than '/x' and '?a=true&b=false' respectively. This has now been fixed.
 5.5 15 1 4.4 18
4Before Firefox 53, the pathname and search HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils properties returned the wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of http://z.com/x?a=true&b=false, pathname would return '/x?a=true&b=false' and search would return '', rather than '/x' and '?a=true&b=false' respectively. This has now been fixed.
 14 1 1.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/pathname