HTMLAreaElement: href 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 HTMLAreaElement.href property is a stringifier that returns a string containing the whole URL, and allows the href to be updated.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
// An <area id="myArea" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement"> element is in the document
const area = document.getElementById("myArea");
area.href; // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/HTMLAreaElement'

Specifications

Specification

HTML
# dom-hyperlink-href-dev

Browser compatibility

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