HTMLAnchorElement: username property

The username property of the HTMLAnchorElement interface is a string containing the username component of the <a> 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 URL.username for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

Getting the username from an anchor link

// An <a id="myAnchor" href="https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementByID("myAnchor");
anchor.username; // returns 'anonymous'

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• The HTMLAnchorElement interface it belongs to.