HTML DOM Anchor href Property

Last Updated : 02 Jan, 2024

The Anchor href Property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of href attribute of a link. The href attribute is used to specify the link’s destination.

Syntax:

It returns the href property.
```
anchorObject.href
```
It is used to set the href property.
```
anchorObject.href = URL 
```

Property Values: It contains the value i.e. URL which specify the URL of the link.

absolute URL: It points to another website.
relative URL: It points to a file within a website.
anchor URL: It points to an anchor within a page.

Return value: It returns a string value which represents the entire URL of the link including the protocol.

Example 1: This example returns the href Property.

html

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

Output:

anchor-href

Example 2: This example sets the href property.

html

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