HTMLAnchorElement: pathname property

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 HTMLAnchorElement.pathname property is a string containing an initial '/' followed by the path of the URL not including the query string or fragment (or the empty string if there is no path).

Value

A string.

Examples

js
// An <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.pathname; // returns '/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-hyperlink-pathname-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also