Element: setAttributeNS() method

Syntax

setAttributeNS(namespaceURI, qualifiedName, value)

Parameters

namespaceURI

A string specifying the namespace of the attribute to set, or the empty string.

qualifiedName

A string identifying the attribute by its qualified name, which has the format prefix:localName or localName, where the parts are defined as:

prefix

A "short alias" for the namespace. The prefix is optional, but if it is specified the namespaceURI parameter must also be specified. If the prefix is set to xml or xmlns, the namespaceURI must be set to http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace or http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/, respectively.

localName

The local name of the attribute.

value

A trusted type or string containing the value to assign to the attribute.

Trusted type instances must be passed for the following attributes when trusted types are enforced:

• Event handler content attributes, such as onclick and onload, require a TrustedScript.
• HTMLIFrameElement.srcdoc require a TrustedHTML instance.
• HTMLScriptElement.src require a TrustedScriptURL instance.
• SVGScriptElement.href require a TrustedScriptURL instance.

Trusted types are not enforced for other attributes, so a string or any trusted type may be passed.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

NamespaceError DOMException

Thrown if the namespaceURI value is:

• not a valid namespace URI.
• set to the empty string when prefix has a value.
• not the value http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace or http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/ when prefix is set to xml or xmlns, respectively.

InvalidCharacterError DOMException

Thrown if either the prefix or localName is not valid:

• The prefix must have at least one character, and cannot contain ASCII whitespace, NULL, /, or > (U+0000, U+002F, or U+003E, respectively).
• The localName must have at least one character, and may not contain ASCII whitespace, NULL, /, = or > (U+0000, U+002F, U+003D, or U+003E, respectively).

Note: Earlier versions of the specification were more restrictive, requiring that the qualifiedName be a valid XML name.

TypeError

Thrown if value is passed a string instead of a trusted type object (for those attributes that require them) when Trusted Types are enforced by a CSP and no default policy is defined.

Examples

Basic usage

let d = document.getElementById("d1");
d.setAttributeNS(
  "http://www.mozilla.org/ns/specialspace",
  "spec:align",
  "center",
);

Trusted types

The Setting unsafe attributes example in setAttribute() shows how you might use setAttributeNS() with the trusted types.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Element.hasAttributeNS()
• Element.getAttributeNS()
• Element.removeAttributeNS()
• Element.setAttribute()