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 2015.

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

Syntax

js
toString()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A string containing the element's complete URL.

Examples

Calling toString on an anchor element

js
// 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

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Chrome
Edge
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