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HTMLAnchorElement: hash property

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

The fragment is not URL 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/HTMLAnchorElement#Examples">Examples</a>

you can get the hash of the anchor like this:

js

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

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
hash 1 12
1From Firefox 29 to Firefox 40, the returned value was incorrectly percent-decoded.
5.5 15 1 4.4 18
4From Firefox 29 to Firefox 40, the returned value was incorrectly percent-decoded.
14 1 1.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/hash