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Element: hasAttribute() method

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.hasAttribute() method returns a Boolean value indicating whether the specified element has the specified attribute or not.

Syntax

hasAttribute(name)

Parameters

name

is a string representing the name of the attribute.

Return value

A boolean.

Examples

const foo = document.getElementById("foo");
if (foo.hasAttribute("bar")) {
  // do something
}

Specifications

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
hasAttribute 1 12 1 8 1 18 4 10.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/hasAttribute