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Anchor.href (Property)

On MSIE the link.href property is also available as the anchor.href property.

Availability:

DOM level - 1

JavaScript - 1.2

JScript - 3.0

Internet Explorer - 4.0

Netscape - 4.0

Property/method value type: String primitive

JavaScript syntax: - myAnchor.href

- myAnchor.href = newHref

HTML syntax: <A HREF="...">

This yields the entire value of the HREF attribute in an <A> tag.

You can redefine the entire HREF content by assigning a new value to this property.

Warnings:

Since the href property of an Anchor object is not portable in all older browser versions, you should use the pathname property of the corresponding Url object to be able to work across MSIE and Netscape.
As features become deprecated, it may become necessary to support both techniques in browser specific code according to your needs regarding the support of legacy browsers.

See also: Anchor object, Anchor.hash, Anchor.host, Anchor.hostname, Anchor.pathname, Anchor.port, Anchor.protocol, Anchor.search, Anchor.target, Location.href, URL, Url.href

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