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 HTMLAnchorElement.hash property returns a string containing a '#' followed by the fragment identifier of the URL.

The fragment is percent-encoded. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".

Value

A string.

Examples

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:

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

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-hyperlink-hash-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also