Location: protocol 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 protocol property of the Location interface is a string representing the protocol scheme of the URL, including the final ':'.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
// Let's an <a id="myAnchor" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Location.protocol"> element be in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
const result = anchor.protocol; // Returns:'https:'

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-location-protocol-dev

Browser compatibility

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