Get local href value from anchor (a) tag

The below code gets the full path, where the anchor points:

document.getElementById("aaa").href; // http://example.com/sec/IF00.html

while the one below gets the value of the href attribute:

document.getElementById("aaa").getAttribute("href"); // sec/IF00.html

document.getElementById("link").getAttribute("href"); If you have more than one <a> tag, for example:

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="1"></a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="2"></a>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="3"></a>
  </li>
</ul>

You can do it like this: document.getElementById("link")[0].getAttribute("href"); to access the first array of <a> tags, or depends on the condition you make.