Element: hasAttributeNS() method
hasAttributeNS
returns a boolean value indicating whether the current element has the specified attribute.
Syntax
js
hasAttributeNS(namespace,localName)
Parameters
namespace
is a string specifying the namespace of the attribute.localName
is the name of the attribute.
Return value
A boolean.
Examples
js
// Check that the attribute exists before you set a value
const d = document.getElementById("div1");
if (
d.hasAttributeNS("http://www.mozilla.org/ns/specialspace/", "special-align")
) {
d.setAttribute("align", "center");
}
Notes
DOM methods dealing with element's attributes:
Not namespace-aware, most commonly used methods | Namespace-aware variants (DOM Level 2) | DOM Level 1 methods for dealing with Attr nodes directly (seldom used) |
DOM Level 2 namespace-aware methods for dealing with Attr nodes directly (seldom used) |
---|---|---|---|
setAttribute (DOM 1) |
setAttributeNS |
setAttributeNode |
setAttributeNodeNS |
getAttribute (DOM 1) |
getAttributeNS |
getAttributeNode |
getAttributeNodeNS |
hasAttribute (DOM 2) |
hasAttributeNS |
- | - |
removeAttribute (DOM 1) |
removeAttributeNS |
removeAttributeNode |
- |
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-element-hasattributens① |
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