HTMLAnchorElement: hash property

{{ APIRef("HTML DOM") }}

The hash property of the {{domxref("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 {{domxref("URL.hash")}} for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

Getting the hash from an anchor link

Given this 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

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Browser compatibility

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See also

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