location: origin property
The origin read-only property of
the Location interface is a string containing the
Unicode serialization of the origin of the represented URL.
That is:
-
for URL using the
httporhttps, the scheme followed by'://', followed by the domain, followed by':', followed by the port (the default port,80and443respectively, if explicitly specified); - for URL using
file:scheme, the value is browser dependent; -
for URL using the
blob:scheme, the origin of the URL followingblob:. E.g"blob:https://mozilla.org"will have"https://mozilla.org".
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
Value
A string.
Examples
js
// On this page, returns the origin
const result = window.location.origin; // Returns:'https://developer.mozilla.org'
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-location-origin-dev |
Browser compatibility
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