The username
property sets or gets the user name part of the href attribute value.
Return the username part of a link:
var x = document.getElementById("myAnchor").username;
Click the button to display the username part of the link.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <p><a id="myAnchor" href="https://userName:password123@www.java2s.com">Example link</a></p> <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <p id="demo"></p> <script> function myFunction() {//from ww w.j ava 2 s . c o m var x = document.getElementById("myAnchor").username; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; } </script> </body> </html>