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Retrieves a collection of all a objects that have a name and/or id property. Objects in this collection are in HTML source order.
Syntax
[ collAnchors = ] document.anchors [ oObject = ] document.anchors(vIndex [, iSubIndex])
Possible Values
collAnchors Array of a objects. oObject Reference to an individual item in the array of elements contained by the object. vIndex Required. Integer or string that specifies the element or collection to retrieve. If this parameter is an integer, the method returns the element in the collection at the given position, where the first element has value 0, the second has 1, and so on. If this parameter is a string and there is more than one element with the name or id property equal to the string, the method returns a collection of matching elements. iSubIndex Optional. Position of an element to retrieve. This parameter is used when vIndex is a string. The method uses the string to construct a collection of all elements that have a name or id property equal to the string, and then retrieves from this collection the element at the position specified by iSubIndex.
Members Table
Property Description length Sets or retrieves the number of objects in a collection.
Method Description item Retrieves an object from the all collection or various other collections. namedItem 
Retrieves an object or a collection from the specified collection. tags Retrieves a collection of objects that have the specified HTML tag name. urns Retrieves a collection of all objects to which a specified behavior is attached.
Example
This example shows how to display the name property of the third anchor defined in the document.
alert(document.anchors(2).name);
Standards Information
This collection is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1
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Applies To
document