HTML DOM Document anchors

The number of <a> elements in a document:

let num = document.anchors.length;

The content of the first <a> element:

let content = document.anchors[0].innerHTML;

Description

The anchors property is deprecated. Do NOT use it.

The anchors property only returns those <a> elements with a name attribute.

The name attribute of the <a> element is not supported in HTML5.

The number of <a> elements in a document:

let num = document.getElementsByTagName("a").length;

The content of the first <a> element:

let content = document.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].innerHTML;

document.anchors

NONE

Type	Description
Object	An HTMLCollection of all lt;a> elements in the document that have a name attribute.