This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The hostname property of the Location interface is a string containing either the domain name or IP address of the location URL. If the URL does not have a hostname, this property contains an empty string, "". IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are normalized, such as stripping leading zeros, and domain names are converted to IDN.
See URL.hostname for more information.
A string.
console.log(window.location.hostname);
// developer.mozilla.org
const anchor = document.createElement("a");
anchor.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org:4097/";
console.log(anchor.hostname === "developer.mozilla.org");
// The port number is not included in hostname
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-location-hostname-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 | |
hostname |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hostname