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Location: hash property

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.

The hash property of the Location interface is a string containing a "#" followed by the fragment identifier of the location URL. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".

See URL.hash for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

Assuming the user has navigated to https://example.org#examples, the following code will log #examples:

const result = location.hash;
console.log(result);

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
hash 1 12 1 ≤12.1 1 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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