Element: localName 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.localName read-only property returns the local part of the qualified name of an element.

Value

A string representing the local part of the element's qualified name.

Examples

(Must be served with XML content type, such as text/xml or application/xhtml+xml.)

xml
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<head>
  <script><![CDATA[
function test() {
  const text = document.getElementById("text");
  const circle = document.getElementById("circle");

  text.value = `<svg:circle> has:
localName = "${circle.localName}"
namespaceURI = "${circle.namespaceURI}"`;
}
  ]]></script>
</head>
<body onload="test()">
  <svg:svg version="1.1"
    width="100px" height="100px"
    viewBox="0 0 100 100">
    <svg:circle cx="50" cy="50" r="30" fill="#aaaaaa" id="circle"/>
  </svg:svg>
  <textarea id="text" rows="4" cols="55"/>
</body>
</html>

Notes

The local name of a node is that part of the node's qualified name that comes after the colon. Qualified names are typically used in XML as part of the namespace(s) of the particular XML documents. For example, in the qualified name comm:partners, partners is the local name and comm is the prefix:

xml
<comm:business id="soda_shop" type="brick_n_mortar" xmlns:comm="http://example.com/comm">
  <comm:partners>
    <comm:partner id="1001">Tony's Syrup Warehouse
    </comm:partner>
  </comm:partner>
</comm:business>

Note: While the property returns the case of the internal DOM storage, which is lower case, note that tagName property returns upper case for HTML elements in HTML DOMs.

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# ref-for-dom-element-localname①

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
localName
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 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
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 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
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

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Full support
Full support

See also