This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The protocol property of the HTMLAnchorElement interface is a string containing the protocol or scheme of the <area> element's href, including the final ":".
This property can be set to change the protocol of the URL. A ":" is appended to the provided string if not provided. The provided scheme has to be compatible with the rest of the URL to be considered valid.
See URL.protocol for more information.
A string.
// An <a id="myAnchor" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.protocol; // returns 'https:'
| Specification |
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| HTML> # dom-hyperlink-protocol-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
protocol |
1 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
HTMLAnchorElement interface it belongs to.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/protocol