Baseline Widely available
The Attr
interface represents one of an element's attributes as an object. In most situations, you will directly retrieve the attribute value as a string (e.g., Element.getAttribute()
), but some cases may require interacting with Attr
instances (e.g., Element.getAttributeNode()
).
The core idea of an object of type Attr
is the association between a name and a value. An attribute may also be part of a namespace and, in this case, it also has a URI identifying the namespace, and a prefix that is an abbreviation for the namespace.
The name is deemed local when it ignores the eventual namespace prefix and deemed qualified when it includes the prefix of the namespace, if any, separated from the local name by a colon (:
). We have three cases: an attribute outside of a namespace, an attribute inside a namespace without a prefix defined, an attribute inside a namespace with a prefix:
myAttr
none none myAttr
myAttr
myAttr
mynamespace
none myAttr
myAttr
myAttr
mynamespace
myns
myAttr
myns:myAttr
Note: This interface represents only attributes present in the tree representation of the Element
, being a SVG, an HTML or a MathML element. It doesn't represent the property of an interface associated with such element, such as HTMLTableElement
for a <table>
element. (See this article for more information about attributes and how they are reflected into properties.)
This interface also inherits the properties of its parent interfaces, Node
and EventTarget
.
localName
Read only
A string representing the local part of the qualified name of the attribute.
name
Read only
The attribute's qualified name. If the attribute is not in a namespace, it will be the same as localName
property.
namespaceURI
Read only
A string representing the URI of the namespace of the attribute, or null
if there is no namespace.
ownerElement
Read only
The Element
the attribute belongs to.
prefix
Read only
A string representing the namespace prefix of the attribute, or null
if a namespace without prefix or no namespace are specified.
specified
Read only Deprecated
This property always returns true
.
value
The attribute's value, a string that can be set and get using this property.
This interface has no specific methods, but inherits the methods of its parent interfaces, Node
and EventTarget
.
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4