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

Getting the hash from an area link

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:

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

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-hyperlink-hash-dev

Browser compatibility

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