HTMLAnchorElement: password property

{{ApiRef("HTML DOM")}} 

The password property of the {{domxref("HTMLAnchorElement")}}  interface is a string containing the password component of the <a> element’s href. If the URL does not have a password, this property contains an empty string, "".

This property can be set to change the password of the URL. If the URL has no {{domxref("HTMLAnchorElement.host", "host")}}  or its scheme is file:, then setting this property has no effect.

The password is {{Glossary("Percent-encoding", "percent-encoded")}}  when setting but not percent-decoded when reading.

See {{domxref("URL.password")}}  for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

// An <a id="myAnchor" href="https://anonymous:flabada@developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementByID("myAnchor");
anchor.password; // returns 'flabada'

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• The {{domxref("HTMLAnchorElement")}}  interface it belongs to.