This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The src property of the HTMLEmbedElement interface returns a string that indicates the URL of the resource being embedded.
It reflects the src attribute of the <embed> element.
A string.
<embed id="el" type="video/quicktime" src="movie.mov" width="640" height="480" title="Title of my video" />
const el = document.getElementById("el");
console.log(el.src); // Output: "movie.mov"
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-embed-src> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
src |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLEmbedElement/src