== .getAttr ==

.getAttr()

Returns the attribute value of an Element. If the attribute does not exist, it will return an empty string.

Usage:: [[mdn>Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String|String]] = Element.''getAttr''(attrName)
Member of:: [[mdn>Web/API/HTMLElement|HTMLElement]]
Parameters:: attrName – the name of the attribute to return (required).
Returns:: The value of the attribute as [[mdn>Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String|String]], or an //empty// string if the attribute either does not exist, or if it is an //empty attribute// (i.e. it has no value).

Notes:: * To check if an empty attribute exists, use [[toolbox:element:hasattr:index|.hasAttr()]] instead.

===== Examples ===== Simple example:


const it = document.getElementById('item')
console.log(it.getAttr('foo'));

===== See also ===== * [[toolbox:element:hasattr:index|.hasAttr()]] * [[toolbox:element:setattr:index|.setAttr()]] ===== More information ===== * [[mdn>Web/API/Element/getAttribute|Element: getAttribute() method]] on MDN.