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HTMLAnchorElement: toString() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2016⁩.

The HTMLAnchorElement.toString() stringifier method returns a string containing the whole URL. It is a read-only version of HTMLAnchorElement.href.

Syntax

toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string containing the element's complete URL.

Examples

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Calling toString on an anchor element

// An <a id="myAnchor" href="/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement"> element is in the document
const anchor = document.getElementById("myAnchor");
anchor.toString(); // returns 'https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTMLAnchorElement'

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# dom-hyperlink-href-dev>

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
toString 52 12 22 39 3 52 22 41 1 6.0 52 1

See also

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