URL: username 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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The username property of the URL interface is a string containing the username specified before the domain name.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const url = new URL(
  "https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/username",
);
console.log(url.username); // Logs "anonymous"

Specifications

Specification
URL Standard
# dom-url-username

Browser compatibility

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See also

  • The URL interface it belongs to.