HTMLAreaElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLAreaElement interface provides special properties and methods (beyond those of the regular object HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating the layout and presentation of <area> elements.

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent HTMLElement.

HTMLAreaElement.alt: A string that reflects the alt HTML attribute, containing alternative text for the element.
HTMLAreaElement.coords: A string that reflects the coords HTML attribute, containing coordinates to define the hot-spot region.
HTMLAreaElement.download: A string indicating that the linked resource is intended to be downloaded rather than displayed in the browser. The value represent the proposed name of the file. If the name is not a valid filename of the underlying OS, browser will adapt it.
HTMLAreaElement.hash: A string containing the fragment identifier (including the leading hash mark (#)), if any, in the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.host: A string containing the hostname and port (if it's not the default port) in the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.hostname: A string containing the hostname in the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.href: A string containing that reflects the href HTML attribute, containing a valid URL of a linked resource.
HTMLAreaElement.noHref Deprecated: A boolean flag indicating if the area is inactive (true) or active (false).
HTMLAreaElement.origin Read only: Returns a string containing the origin of the URL, that is its scheme, its domain and its port.
HTMLAreaElement.password: A string containing the password specified before the domain name.
HTMLAreaElement.pathname: A string containing the path name component, if any, of the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.ping: A space-separated list of URLs. When the link is followed, the browser will send POST requests with the body PING to the URLs.
HTMLAreaElement.port: A string containing the port component, if any, of the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.protocol: A string containing the protocol component (including trailing colon ':'), of the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.referrerPolicy: A string that reflects the referrerpolicy HTML attribute indicating which referrer to use when fetching the linked resource.
HTMLAreaElement.rel: A string that reflects the rel HTML attribute, indicating relationships of the current document to the linked resource.
HTMLAreaElement.relList Read only: Returns a DOMTokenList that reflects the rel HTML attribute, indicating relationships of the current document to the linked resource, as a list of tokens.
HTMLAreaElement.search: A string containing the search element (including leading question mark '?'), if any, of the referenced URL.
HTMLAreaElement.shape: A string that reflects the shape HTML attribute, indicating the shape of the hot-spot, limited to known values.
HTMLAreaElement.target: A string that reflects the target HTML attribute, indicating the browsing context in which to open the linked resource.
HTMLAreaElement.username: A string containing the username specified before the domain name.

Instance methods

Inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLAreaElement.toString(): Returns a string containing the whole URL. It is a synonym for HTMLAreaElement.href.

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # htmlareaelement

Browser compatibility

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Instance properties

Instance methods

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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