Tech Stuff - DOM-2 Attributes Attribute

W3C Core Reference. Part of the Node Interface

Attributes Attribute

Returns a NamedNodeMap containing all the attributes of this node. Each attribute may be accessed using the Attr Interface.

Syntax

namednodemap = element.attributes()

Related Stuff

Parameters

None

Examples

// get an element 
element = document.getElementById("one");
// get NamedNodeMap of its attributes
map = element.attributes;
// use node methods or attributes to access
for(i = 0; i < map.length; i++)
{
  ns[i] = map[i].name + map[i].value;	// save attribute name in array
}

// used named method

node = map.getNamedItem("class");

// returns a Node with nodeType = 2

The first example gets a NamedNodeMap (map) of all the attributes of this node. We then enumerate all the names and values of the attributes. The second examples uses the getNamedItem method of NamedNodeMap to get only the "class" attribute.

Notes:

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