HTML DOM Anchor rel Property

The Anchor rel Property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of the rel attribute of a link. The rel attribute is used to specify the relation between the current document and the linked document.

Syntax:

It returns the Anchor rel property.

anchorObject.rel

It is used to set the Anchor rel property.

anchorObject.rel = "value"

Property Values:

Value	Description
alternate	It defines an alternate version of the document i.e. print page, translated or mirror.
author	It defines the author of the document.
bookmark	It specify a related document.
help	It specifies a help document.
license	It defines a copyright information for the document.
next	It defines the next document in a selection.
nofollow	It is used by Google, to specify that the Google search spider should not follow that link and mostly used for paid links.
noreferrer	It is used to Specify that the browser should not send a HTTP referrer header if the user follows the hyperlink.
prefetch	It specifies that the target document should be cached.
prev	It specify the previous document in a selection.
search	It specify the search tool for the document.
tag	It specifies a tag keyword for the current document.

Return Value: It returns a string value which represents the relation between the current document and the linked document.

Example 1: This example returns the Anchor rel Property.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
 
<head>

    <title>

        HTML DOM Anchor rel Property

    </title>

</head>
 
<body style="text-align: center;">

    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Anchor rel Property</h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to

        <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org"

            id="GFG" rel="nofollow"

            target="_self">

            GeeksforGeeks

        </a>

    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">

        Submit

    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <!-- Script to return Anchor rel Property -->

    <script>

        function myGeeks() {

            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").rel;

            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x;

        } 

    </script>

</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Example 2: This example sets the Anchor rel Property.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
 
<head>

    <title>

        HTML DOM Anchor rel Property

    </title>

</head>
 
<body style="text-align: center;">

    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Anchor rel Property</h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to

        <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org"

            id="GFG" rel="nofollow"

            target="_self">

            GeeksforGeeks

        </a>

    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">

        Submit

    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <!-- Script to set Anchor rel Property -->

    <script>

        function myGeeks() {

            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").rel

                = "noopener";
 
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML

                = "The value of rel attribute "

                + "is changed to " + x;

        } 

    </script>

</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Supported Browsers:

Google Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Safari

Article Tags :

HTML

Web Technologies

HTML-DOM