Location: hostname property

The hostname property of the Location interface is a string containing the domain name of the URL.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
console.log(window.location.hostname);
// developer.mozilla.org

const anchor = document.createElement("a");
anchor.href = "https://developer.mozilla.org:4097/";
console.log(anchor.hostname === "developer.mozilla.org");
// The port number is not included in hostname

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-location-hostname-dev

Browser compatibility

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