XML DOM getAttribute() Method
Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The getAttribute() method gets an attribute value by name.
Syntax
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elementNode.getAttribute(name)
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| Parameter |
Description |
| name |
Required. Specifies the attribute to get the attribute
value from |
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the value of the "category" attribute
in all <book> elements:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x[i].getAttribute('category'));
document.write("<br />");
}
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Output:
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Complete Element Object Reference

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