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Document: links property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨June 2018⁩.

The links read-only property of the Document interface returns a collection of all <area> elements and <a> elements in a document with a value for the href attribute.

Value

An HTMLCollection.

Examples

for (const link of document.links) {
  const linkHref = document.createTextNode(link.href);
  const lineBreak = document.createElement("br");
  document.body.appendChild(linkHref);
  document.body.appendChild(lineBreak);
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
links 1 12 61
1–61Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
≤12.1 4
1–4Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
18 61
4–61Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
≤12.1 3.2
1–3.2Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
1.0 4.4 3.2
1–3.2Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/links