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HTML | DOM Anchor origin Property

Last Updated : 17 Oct, 2019
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The Anchor origin property in HTML DOM is used to return the protocol, hostname and port number of the href attribute value. It is the readonly property that returns a string value which represents the protocol, domain name and the port number of the URL.

Syntax:

anchorObject.origin

Below program illustrates the use of Anchor origin Property in HTML DOM:

Example: This example returns the anchor origin property.




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Anchor origin Property
    </title>
</head>
  
<body>
    <center>
        <h1>
        GeeksForGeeks
    </h1>
  
        <h2>
        DOM Anchor origin Property
    </h2>
  
        <p>Welcome to
            <a href=
            id="GFG"
            rel="nofollow"
            target="_self"
                GeeksforGeeks 
            </a>
        </p>
  
        <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
  
        <p id="sudo"
        style="color:green;
                font-size:25px;">
    </p>
  
        <script>
            function myGeeks() {
              
                var x =
                    document.getElementById(
                    "GFG").origin;
              
                document.getElementById(
                "sudo").innerHTML = x;
            }
        </script>
    </center>
</body>
  
</html>


Output:

Before Clicking On Button:

After Clicking On Button:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by DOM Anchor origin property are listed below:

  • Google Chrome
  • Internet Explorer 10.0 +
  • Firefox
  • Opera
  • Safari


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