HTMLAnchorElement: text 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 text property of the HTMLAnchorElement represents the text inside the element. This property represents the same information as Node.textContent.

Value

A string.

Example

html
<a id="exampleLink" href="https://example.com">Example Link</a>
<p class="text"></p>
css
#exampleLink {
  font-size: 1.5rem;
}
js
const anchorElement = document.getElementById("exampleLink");
const pTag = document.querySelector(".text");
pTag.textContent = `Text property: ${anchorElement.text}`;

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-a-text

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
text

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Full support
Full support

See also