This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLAreaElement.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).
The pathname is percent-encoded when setting but not percent-decoded when read.
A string.
// An <area id="myArea" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementById("myArea");
area.pathname; // returns '/en-US/docs/HTMLAreaElement'
| Specification |
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| HTML> # dom-hyperlink-pathname-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 | |
pathname |
1 | 12 | 1Before Firefox 53, thepathname and search HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils properties returned the wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of https://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. |
15 | 1 | 18 | 4Before Firefox for Android 53, thepathname and search HTMLHyperlinkElementUtils properties returned the wrong parts of the URL. For example, for a URL of https://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 | 4.4 | 1 |
HTMLAreaElement interface it belongs to.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAreaElement/pathname