HTMLAnchorElement: hash property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The hash property of the HTMLAnchorElement interface is a string containing a "#" followed by the fragment identifier of the <a> element's href. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".

See URL.hash for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

Getting the hash from an anchor link

Given this HTML

html

<a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/hash#examples">
  Examples
</a>

you can get the hash of the anchor like this:

const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.hash; // '#examples'

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-hyperlink-hash-dev

Browser compatibility

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