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String.prototype.anchor()

Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.

The anchor() method of String values creates a string that embeds this string in an <a> element with a name (<a name="...">str</a>).

Note: All HTML wrapper methods are deprecated and only standardized for compatibility purposes. Use DOM APIs such as document.createElement() instead.

The HTML specification no longer allows the <a> element to have a name attribute, so this method doesn't even create valid markup.

Syntax

anchor(name)

Parameters

name: A string representing a name value to put into the generated <a name="..."> start tag.

Return value

A string beginning with an <a name="name"> start tag (double quotes in name are replaced with "), then the text str, and then an </a> end tag.

Examples

Using anchor()

The code below creates an HTML string and then replaces the document's body with it:

const contentString = "Hello, world";

document.body.innerHTML = contentString.anchor("hello");

This will create the following HTML:

html

<a name="hello">Hello, world</a>

Warning: This markup is invalid, because name is no longer a valid attribute of the <a> element.

Instead of using anchor() and creating HTML text directly, you should use DOM APIs such as document.createElement(). For example:

const contentString = "Hello, world";
const elem = document.createElement("a");
elem.innerText = contentString;
document.body.appendChild(elem);

Specifications

Specification
ECMAScript Language Specification # sec-string.prototype.anchor

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile						Server
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	Deno	Node.js
`anchor`	1	12	1 Starting with version 17, the quotation mark (") is replaced by its HTML reference character (`"`) in strings supplied for the `name` parameter.	3	1	18	4	10.1	1	1.0	4.4	1.0	0.10.0