HTMLAreaElement: hash 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 hash property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string containing a "#" followed by the fragment identifier of the <area> element's href. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".

See URL.hash for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

Given this HTML

html
<map name="infographic"> <area id="mdn-circle" shape="circle" coords="130,136,60" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/#ExampleSection" alt="MDN" /> </map> <img usemap="#infographic" src="/media/examples/mdn-info.png" alt="MDN infographic" /> 

you can get the hash of the area link like this:

js
const area = document.getElementById("mdn-circle"); area.hash; // '#ExampleSection' 

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-hyperlink-hash-dev

Browser compatibility

See also