This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The host property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string containing the host, which is the hostname, and then, if the port of the URL is nonempty, a ":", followed by the port of the URL. If the URL does not have a hostname, this property contains an empty string, "".
See URL.host for more information.
A string.
const area = document.createElement("area");
area.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement";
area.host === "developer.mozilla.org";
area.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org:443/en-US/HTMLAreaElement";
area.host === "developer.mozilla.org";
// The port number is not included because 443 is the scheme's default port
area.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org:4097/en-US/HTMLAreaElement";
area.host === "developer.mozilla.org:4097";
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-hyperlink-host-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 | |
host |
1 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
HTMLAreaElement interface it belongs to.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAreaElement/host