XML DOM getAttribute() Method

Complete Element Object Reference

Definition and Usage

The getAttribute() method gets an attribute value by name.

Syntax

elementNode.getAttribute(name)

Example

The following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and gets the value of the "category" attribute in all <book> elements:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('book');

for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x[i].getAttribute('category'));
document.write("<br />");
}

Output:

COOKING
CHILDREN
WEB
WEB

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getAttribute() - Get a specified attribute's value

Complete Element Object Reference

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