HTMLAnchorElement

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.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

TheHTMLAnchorElement interface represents hyperlink elements and provides special properties and methods (beyond those of the regularHTMLElement object interface that they inherit from) for manipulating the layout and presentation of such elements. This interface corresponds to<a> element; not to be confused with<link>, which is represented byHTMLLinkElement.

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent,HTMLElement.

HTMLAnchorElement.attributionSrcSecure contextExperimental: Gets and sets the attributionsrc attribute on an<a> element programmatically, reflecting the value of that attribute.attributionsrc specifies that you want the browser to send anAttribution-Reporting-Eligible header. On the server-side this is used to trigger sending anAttribution-Reporting-Register-Source header in the response, to register a navigation-based attribution source.
HTMLAnchorElement.download: A string indicating that the linked resource is intended to be downloaded rather than displayed in the browser. The value represents the proposed name of the file. If the name is not a valid filename of the underlying OS, the browser will adapt it.
HTMLAnchorElement.hash: A string representing the fragment identifier, including the leading hash mark (#), if any, in the referenced URL.
HTMLAnchorElement.host: A string representing the hostname and port (if it's not the default port) in the referenced URL.
HTMLAnchorElement.hostname: A string representing the hostname in the referenced URL.
HTMLAnchorElement.href: A string that is the result of parsing thehref HTML attribute relative to the document, containing a valid URL of a linked resource.
HTMLAnchorElement.hreflang: A string that reflects thehreflang HTML attribute, indicating the language of the linked resource.
HTMLAnchorElement.originRead only: Returns a string containing the origin of the URL, that is its scheme, its domain and its port.
HTMLAnchorElement.password: A string containing the password specified before the domain name.
HTMLAnchorElement.pathname: A string containing an initial/ followed by the path of the URL, not including the query string or fragment.
HTMLAnchorElement.ping: A space-separated list of URLs. When the link is followed, the browser will sendPOST requests with the body PING to the URLs.
HTMLAnchorElement.port: A string representing the port component, if any, of the referenced URL.
HTMLAnchorElement.protocol: A string representing the protocol component, including trailing colon (:), of the referenced URL.
HTMLAnchorElement.referrerPolicy: A string that reflects thereferrerpolicy HTML attribute indicating which referrer to use.
HTMLAnchorElement.rel: A string that reflects therel HTML attribute, specifying the relationship of the target object to the linked object.
HTMLAnchorElement.relListRead only: Returns aDOMTokenList that reflects therel HTML attribute, as a list of tokens.
HTMLAnchorElement.search: A string representing the search element, including leading question mark (?), if any, of the referenced URL.
HTMLAnchorElement.target: A string that reflects thetarget HTML attribute, indicating where to display the linked resource.
HTMLAnchorElement.text: A string being a synonym for theNode.textContent property.
HTMLAnchorElement.type: A string that reflects thetype HTML attribute, indicating the MIME type of the linked resource.
HTMLAnchorElement.username: A string containing the username specified before the domain name.

Obsolete properties

HTMLAnchorElement.charsetDeprecated: A string representing the character encoding of the linked resource.
HTMLAnchorElement.coordsDeprecated: A string representing a comma-separated list of coordinates.
HTMLAnchorElement.nameDeprecated: A string representing the anchor name.
HTMLAnchorElement.revDeprecated: A string representing that therev HTML attribute, specifying the relationship of the link object to the target object.
HTMLAnchorElement.shapeDeprecated: A string representing the shape of the active area.

Instance methods

Inherits methods from its parent,HTMLElement.

HTMLAnchorElement.toString(): Returns a string containing the whole URL. It is a synonym forHTMLAnchorElement.href, though it can't be used to modify the value.