This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLAreaElement.href property is a stringifier that returns a string containing the whole URL, and allows the href to be updated.
A string.
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementById("myArea");
area.href; // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement'
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-hyperlink-href-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 | |
href |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 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/href