HTML DOM Anchor Text Property

Last Updated : 02 Jan, 2024

The Anchor text Property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the text content of a link.

Syntax:

It returns the Anchor text property.
```
anchorObject.text
```
It is used to set the Anchor text property.
```
anchorObject.text = sometext
```

Property Values: It contains single value sometext which specifies the text content of the link field.

Return Value: It returns a string value which represents the text content of the link.

Example 1: This example returns the anchor text Property.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Anchor text Property
    </title>
</head>
 
<body style="text-align: center;">
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Anchor text Property</h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to
        <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"
            id="GFG">
            GeeksforGeeks Offical Website
        </a>
    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <!-- Script to return Anchor text Property -->
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").text;
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x;
        } 
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

anchor-text

Example 2: This example sets the anchor text Property.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>
        HTML DOM Anchor text Property
    </title>
</head>
 
<body style="text-align: center;">
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Anchor text Property</h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to
        <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"
            id="GFG">
            GeeksforGeeks
        </a>
    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">
        Submit
    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <!-- Script to set Anchor text Property -->
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").text
                = "GeeksforGeeks Official Website";
                 
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML
                = "The text was changed to " + x;
        } 
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>