HTMLAreaElement: hash property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

See full compatibility

The hash property of the HTMLAreaElement interface is a string containing a "#" followed by the fragment identifier of the <area> element's href. If the URL does not have a fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".

See URL.hash for more information.

Value

A string.

Examples

Getting the hash from an area link

Given this HTML

html

<map name="infographic">
  <area
    id="mdn-circle"
    shape="circle"
    coords="130,136,60"
    href="https://developer.mozilla.org/#ExampleSection"
    alt="MDN" />
</map>

<img
  usemap="#infographic"
  src="/media/examples/mdn-info.png"
  alt="MDN infographic" />

you can get the hash of the area link like this:

const area = document.getElementById("mdn-circle");
area.hash; // '#ExampleSection'

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-hyperlink-hash-dev

Browser compatibility

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`hash`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09) footnote footnote From Firefox 29 to Firefox 40, the returned value was incorrectly percent-decoded.	Opera – Full support Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 1 (Release date: 2003-06-23) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29) footnote footnote From Firefox for Android 29 to Firefox for Android 40, the returned value was incorrectly percent-decoded.	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 14 (Release date: 2013-05-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29) footnote Full support

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Full support: Full support
: See implementation notes.