host property

Sets or retrieves the hostname and port number of the location or URL.

Syntax

Property values

Type: String

the host name and port number.

Remarks

The host property is the concatenation of the hostname and port properties, separated by a colon (hostname:port). When the port property is null, the host property is the same as the hostname property.

The host property may be set at any time, although it is safer to set the href property to change a location. If the specified host cannot be found, an error is returned.

Examples

This example function returns the host property of the current page location.

function getHost()
{
    return document.location.host;
}

See also

a

area

location