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XML DOM getAttribute() Method

Element Object Reference Complete Element Object Reference

Definition and Usage

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

Syntax

elementNode.getAttribute(name)

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 />");
}

Output:

COOKING
CHILDREN
WEB
WEB

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