Element: attributes property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The Element.attributes property returns a live collection of all attribute nodes registered to the specified node. It is a NamedNodeMap, not an Array, so it has no Array methods and the Attr nodes' indexes may differ among browsers. To be more specific, attributes is a key/value pair of strings that represents any information regarding that attribute.

Value

A NamedNodeMap object.

Examples

Basic examples

js
// Get the first <p> element in the document
const paragraph = document.querySelector("p");
const attributes = paragraph.attributes;

Enumerating elements attributes

You can enumerate through an element's attributes using for...of. The following example runs through the attribute nodes for the element in the document with id "paragraph", and prints each attribute's value.

html
<p id="paragraph" class="green" contenteditable>Sample Paragraph</p>
<input type="button" value="Show paragraph attribute name and value" />
<pre id="result"></pre>
css
.green {
  color: green;
}
js
const paragraph = document.getElementById("paragraph");
const result = document.getElementById("result");
const btn = document.querySelector("input[type='button']");

btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
  // First, let's verify that the paragraph has some attributes
  if (paragraph.hasAttributes()) {
    let output = "Attributes of first paragraph:\n";
    for (const attr of paragraph.attributes) {
      output += `${attr.name} -> ${attr.value}\n`;
    }
    result.textContent = output;
  } else {
    result.textContent = "No attributes to show";
  }
});

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# dom-element-attributes

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
attributes
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 1 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 8 (Release date: 2005-04-19)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 1 (Release date: 2003-06-23)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 10.1 (Release date: 2010-11-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support

Legend

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Full support
Full support

See also

  • NamedNodeMap, the interface of the returned object
  • Cross-browser compatibility considerations: on quirksmode