This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2018.
The HTMLButtonElement.labels read-only property returns a NodeList of the <label> elements associated with the <button> element.
A NodeList containing the <label> elements associated with the <button> element.
<label id="label1" for="test">Label 1</label> <button id="test">Button</button> <label id="label2" for="test">Label 2</label>
const button = document.getElementById("test");
for (const label of button.labels) {
console.log(label.textContent); // "Label 1" and "Label 2"
}
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-lfe-labels-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
labels |
6 | 18 | 56 | ≤12.1 | 5.1 | 18 | 56 | ≤12.1 | 5 | 1.0 | 3 | 5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLButtonElement/labels