This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The type property of the HTMLAnchorElement interface is a string that indicates the MIME type of the linked resource.
It reflects the type attribute of the <a> element.
A string.
<a id="exampleLink" href="https://example.com" type="text/html">Example Link</a> <p class="type"></p>
#exampleLink {
font-size: 1.5rem;
}
const anchorElement = document.getElementById("exampleLink");
const pTag = document.querySelector(".type");
console.log(anchorElement.type); // Output: "text/html"
pTag.textContent = anchorElement.type;
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-a-type> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
type |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
HTMLLinkElement.type propertyHTMLSourceElement.type propertyHTMLEmbedElement.type property
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/type