The Anchor object represents an HTML <a> element.
The Anchor object supports the standard properties and events.
We can access an <a> element by using getElementById().
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<a id="myAnchor" href="http://www.example.com">Tutorials</a>
<button onclick="myFunction()">test</button>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
function myFunction() {<!-- w w w . ja v a 2 s . co m-->
var x = document.getElementById("myAnchor").href;
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The code above is rendered as follows:
We can create an <a> element by using the document.createElement() method.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<button onclick="myFunction()">test</button>
<script>
function myFunction() {<!-- w ww . java 2s. c o m-->
var x = document.createElement("A");
var t = document.createTextNode("Tutorials");
x.setAttribute("href", "http://www.example.com");
x.appendChild(t);
document.body.appendChild(x);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The code above is rendered as follows:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| charset | Not supported in HTML5. Sets or gets the charset attribute of a link |
| download | Sets or gets the download attribute of a link |
| hash | Sets or gets the anchor part of the href attribute value |
| host | Sets or gets the hostname and port of the href attribute value |
| hostname | Sets or gets the hostname part of the href attribute value |
| href | Sets or gets the href attribute of a link |
| hreflang | Sets or gets the hreflang attribute of a link |
| origin | Returns the protocol, hostname and port of the href attribute value |
| id | Sets or gets the id attribute of a link |
| name | Not supported in HTML5. Use id instead. Sets or gets the name attribute of a link |
| password | Sets or gets the password part of the href attribute value |
| pathname | Sets or gets the pathname of the href attribute value |
| port | Sets or gets the port of the href attribute value |
| protocol | Sets or gets the protocol of the href attribute value |
| rel | Sets or gets the rel attribute of a link |
| rev | Not supported in HTML5. Sets or gets the rev attribute of a link |
| search | Sets or gets the query string of the href attribute value |
| target | Sets or gets the target attribute of a link |
| text | Sets or gets the link text |
| type | Sets or gets the type attribute of a link |
| username | Sets or gets the username in the href attribute value |