web api instance property
HTMLAreaElement: username property
The username property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string containing the username component of the <area> element’s href. If the URL does not have a username, this property contains an empty string, "".
This property can be set to change the username of the URL. If the URL has no host or its scheme is file:, then setting this property has no effect.
The username is percent-encoded when setting but not percent-decoded when reading.
See username for more information.
Value
A string.
Examples
Getting the username from an area link
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementByID("myArea");
area.username; // returns 'anonymous'
Specifications
SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.
Browser compatibility
Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.
See also
- The
HTMLAreaElementinterface it belongs to.