Javascript DOM HTML Document anchors Collection

Introduction

Find out how many <a> elements there are in the document: 

var x = document.anchors.length;

Click the button to display the number of anchors in the document.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<a name="html">HTML Tutorial</a><br>
<a name="css">CSS Tutorial</a><br>
<a name="xml">XML Tutorial</a><br>
<button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
function myFunction() {/*from  ww  w.  j a  v  a2s  .  co  m*/
  var x = document.anchors.length;
  document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

The anchors collection returns a collection of all <a> elements in the document that have a name attribute.

The elements in the collection are sorted as they appear in the source code.

Properties

Property Description
length Returns the number of <a> elements in the collection.

This property is read-only

Methods

Method
 Description
[index]

 Get the <a> element from the collection with the specified index (starts at 0).
Returns null if the index number is out of range
item(index)

 Get the <a> element from the collection with the specified index (starts at 0).
Returns null if the index number is out of range
namedItem(id)

 Get the <a> element from the collection with the specified id.
Note: Returns null if the id does not exist



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