This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLAnchorElement.rel property reflects the rel attribute. It is a string containing a space-separated list of link types indicating the relationship between the resource represented by the <a> element and the current document.
A string.
const anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (const anchor of anchors) {
alert(`Rel: ${anchor.rel}`);
}
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-a-rel> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
rel |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
<area> and <link>, HTMLAreaElement.rel and HTMLLinkElement.rel.HTMLAnchorElement.relList
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/rel