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
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-element-hasattributens①

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