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, "".
A string.
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'
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-hyperlink-hash-dev |
| 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 |
HTMLAnchorElement interface it belongs to.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/hash