Represents an attribute or property of an HTML element as an object.

Members Table

The following table lists the members exposed by the attribute object.

Attributes/Properties

Attribute	Property	Description
	constructor	Returns a reference to the constructor of an object.
	expando	Retrieves a value indicating whether arbitrary variables can be created within the object.
	firstChild	Retrieves a reference to the first child in the childNodes collection of the object.
	lastChild	Retrieves a reference to the last child in the childNodes collection of an object.
NAME	name	Sets or retrieves the name of the object.
	nextSibling	Retrieves a reference to the next child of the parent for the object.
	nodeName	Retrieves the name of a particular type of node.
	nodeType	Retrieves the type of the requested node.
	nodeValue	Sets or retrieves the value of a node.
	ownerDocument	Retrieves the document object associated with the node.
	ownerElement	Retrieves the element that owns the attribute.
	parentNode	Retrieves the parent object in the document hierarchy.
	previousSibling	Retrieves a reference to the previous child of the parent for the object.
	specified	Gets whether an attribute has been specified.
	value	Sets or gets the value of the object.

Collections

Collection	Description
attributes	Retrieves the collection of attributes belonging to the object.
childNodes	Retrieves a collection of HTML Elements and TextNode objects that are direct descendants of the specified object.

Methods

Method	Description
appendChild	Appends an element as a child to the object.
cloneNode	Copies a reference to the object from the document hierarchy.
hasChildNodes	Returns a value that indicates whether the object has children.
insertBefore	Inserts an element into the document hierarchy as a child node of a parent object.
removeChild	Removes a child node from the object.
replaceChild	Replaces an existing child element with a new child element.

Prototypes

Object	Description
Attr Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the Attr Constructor prototype chain.
CSSRuleStyleDeclaration Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the CSSRuleStyleDeclaration Constructor prototype chain.
CSSStyleDeclaration Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the CSSStyleDeclaration Constructor prototype chain.
HTCBehavior Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the HTCBehavior Constructor prototype chain.
HTCElementBehaviorDefaults Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the HTCElementBehaviorDefaults Constructor prototype chain.
HTMLModelessDialog Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the HTMLModelessDialog Constructor prototype chain.
NamedNodeMap Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the NamedNodeMap Constructor prototype chain.
NodeList Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the NodeList Constructor prototype chain.
StaticNodeList Constructor	Defines the properties and methods inherited by objects in the StaticNodeList Constructor prototype chain.

Remarks

  When displaying a Web page in IE8 mode, Internet Explorer distinguishes between attribute values specified by the original page author and the representation of those values in the Document Object Model (DOM). For more information, see Attribute Differences in Internet Explorer 8.

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.

This object is available in script as of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.

Example

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>

Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this object.