HTML DOM Anchor Text Property

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>w3wiki</h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Anchor text Property</h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to
        <a href="https://www.w3wiki.net/"
            id="GFG">
            w3wiki Offical Website
        </a>
    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myBeginner()">
        Submit
    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <!-- Script to return Anchor text Property -->
    <script>
        function myBeginner() {
            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").text;
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML = x;
        }
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>


Output:

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>w3wiki</h1>
 
    <h2>DOM Anchor text Property</h2>
 
    <p>Welcome to
        <a href="https://www.w3wiki.net/"
            id="GFG">
            w3wiki
        </a>
    </p>
 
    <button onclick="myBeginner()">
        Submit
    </button>
 
    <p id="sudo"></p>
 
    <!-- Script to set Anchor text Property -->
    <script>
        function myBeginner() {
            let x = document.getElementById("GFG").text
                = "w3wiki Official Website";
                 
            document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML
                = "The text was changed to " + x;
        }
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>


Output:

Supported Browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Internet Explorer 10.0 +
  • Firefox
  • Opera
  • Safari