Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

getAttribute( ) — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

getAttribute(attributeName[, caseSensitivity])

Returns the value of the named attribute within the current element. If the attribute is reflected in the object model as a property, this method returns the same value as when reading the object’s property. If the tag includes multiple attributes with the same name (and caseSensitivity is not turned on), the last one in order is used to retrieve the value.

Returned Value

Attribute value as a string, number, or Boolean, as dictated by the attribute’s data type.

Parameters

attributeName

The attribute name used in the HTML tag (not including the = symbol).

caseSensitivity

An optional Boolean value. If true, the attribute in the HTML tag must match the case of the attributeName parameter exactly for its value to be returned.