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
# dom-a-text

Browser compatibility

See also