HTML DOM Anchor host Property

Last Updated : 02 Jan, 2024

The DOM Anchor host Property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the hostname and post part of the href attribute value.

Syntax:

It returns the host property.
```
anchorObject.host
```
It is used to set the host property.
```
anchorObject.host = hostname:port
```

Property Values: It contains the value hostname:port Which specify the hostname and the port number of a URL.

Return Value: It returns a string value which represents the domain name and the port number of the URL.

Example: This example returns the host Property.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Anchor host Property
    </title>
</head>
 
<body style="text-align: center;">
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
    <h2>
        DOM Anchor host Property
    </h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to
        <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org:5000"
            id="GFG">
            GeeksforGeeks
        </a>
    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").host;
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x;
        } 
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

anchor-host

Example 2: This example sets the Host Property.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Anchor host Property
    </title>
</head>
 
<body style="text-align: center;">
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
    <h2>
        DOM Anchor host Property
    </h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to
        <a href="https://ide.geeksforgeeks.org:5000/"
            id="GFG">
            GeeksforGeeks
        </a>
    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").host
                = "www.geeksforgeeks.org:5500";
 
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x;
        } 
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>