javascript instance method
String.prototype.anchor()
The anchor() method of String values creates a string that embeds this string in an <a> element with a name (<a name="...">str</a>).
[!NOTE] All HTML wrapper methods are deprecated and only standardized for compatibility purposes. Use DOM APIs such as
document.createElement()instead.The HTML specification no longer allows the
<a>element to have anameattribute, so this method doesn’t even create valid markup.
Syntax
anchor(name)
Parameters
name- : A string representing a
namevalue to put into the generated<a name="...">start tag.
- : A string representing a
Return value
A string beginning with an <a name="name"> start tag (double quotes in name are replaced with "), then the text str, and then an </a> end tag.
Examples
Using anchor()
The code below creates an HTML string and then replaces the document’s body with it:
const contentString = "Hello, world";
document.body.innerHTML = contentString.anchor("hello");
This will create the following HTML:
<a name="hello">Hello, world</a>
[!WARNING] This markup is invalid, because
nameis no longer a valid attribute of the<a>element.
Instead of using anchor() and creating HTML text directly, you should use DOM APIs such as document.createElement(). For example:
const contentString = "Hello, world";
const elem = document.createElement("a");
elem.innerText = contentString;
document.body.appendChild(elem);