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Inherits from Node

Properties

No properties.

Methods

API Name	Summary
getNamedItem	Gets an attribute with a given name from an element.
getNamedItemNS	Gets an attribute with a given name and a given namespace.
removeNamedItem	Removes an attribute with a given name.
removeNamedItemNS	Removes an attribute with a given name and a given namespace.
setNamedItem
setNamedItemNS

Events

No events.

Inherited from Node

Properties

API Name	Summary
attributes	Associatve array containing the attributes of node.
childNodes
firstChild
lastChild
localName	Retrieves the local name of the fully qualified XML declaration for a node.
namespaceURI	Retrieves the namespace URI of the fully qualified XML declaration for a node.
nextSibling	Retrieves the next child node of the parent of the node.
nodeName	Gets the name of a particular type of node.
nodeType	Retrieves the type of the requested node.
nodeValue	Gets or sets the value of a node.
ownerDocument
parentNode	Retrieves the parent node in the document hierarchy.
prefix	Sets or retrieves the prefix of the fully qualified XML declaration for a node.
previousSibling	Retrieves the previous child node of the parent of the node.
textContent	Sets or retrieves the text content of a node and any child nodes.

Methods

API Name	Summary
appendChild	Appends an element as a child to the object.
cloneNode	Copies a reference to the object from the document hierarchy.
compareDocumentPosition	Compares the position of two nodes in a document.
empty
hasAttributes
hasChildNodes
insertBefore	Inserts a node into the document hierarchy as a child node of a node.
isDefaultNamespace	Indicates whether or not a namespace is the default namespace for a document.
isEqualNode	Determines whether two nodes are equal in their type, name and namespace.
isSameNode	Determines if two nodes are the same node.
isSupported	Returns a value indicating whether or not the object supports a specific DOM standard.
lookupNamespaceURI	Gets the URI of the namespace associated with a namespace prefix, if any.
lookupPrefix	Gets the namespace prefix associated with a URI, if any.
normalize	Merges adjacent DOM objects to produce a normalized document object model.
removeChild	Removes a child node from a node.
removeNode	Non standard. Proprietary. Use removeChild instead. Removes a node from the document hierarchy.
replaceChild	Replaces an existing child node with a new child node.
replaceNode	Non standard. Proprietary. Replaces the node with another node.
swapNode	Non standard. Proprietary. Exchanges the location of two nodes in the document hierarchy.

Events

No events.

Examples

This example uses the attribute object to create a list of attributes that are specified.

<SCRIPT>
function fnFind(){
   for(var i=0;i<oList.attributes.length;i++){
      if(oList.attributes[i].specified){
         alert(oList.attributes[i].nodeName + " = "
          + oList.attributes[i].nodeValue);
      }
   }
}
</SCRIPT>
<UL onclick="fnFind()">
<LI ID = "oList" ACCESSKEY = "L">List Item 1
</UL>

Notes

Remarks

The attribute object is accessible through the attributes collection. A valid attribute or property can be any Dynamic HTML (DHTML) property or event that applies to the object, or an expando. When displaying a Web page in IE8 Standards mode, Windows Internet Explorer distinguishes between attribute values specified by the original page author and the representation of those values in the DOM. For more information, see Attribute Differences in Internet Explorer 8. This object is available in script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

Members

The attribute object has these types of members:

• [#methods Methods]
• [#properties Properties]

Methods

The attribute object has these methods. {

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Portions of this content come from the Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]