This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The src property of the HTMLScriptElement interface is a string representing the URL of an external script; this can be used as an alternative to embedding a script directly within a document.
It reflects the src attribute of the <script> element.
A string.
Assume the code is running on a website whose URL is https://example.com.
<script id="script-with-src" type="module" src="/main.js"></script> <script id="script-without-src" type="module"></script>
const script_with_src = document.getElementById("script-with-src");
console.log(script_with_src.src); // Output: "https://example.com/main.js"
const script_without_src = document.getElementById("script-without-src");
console.log(script_without_src.src); // Output: ""
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-script-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 |
enforces_trusted_types |
83 | 83 | 135 | 69 | 26 | 83 | No | 59 | 26 | 13.0 | 83 | 26 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLScriptElement/src