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HTMLButtonElement: type property

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 type property of the HTMLButtonElement interface is a string that indicates the behavior type of the <button> element.

It reflects the type attribute of the <button> element.

Value

A string representing the type.

Its possible values are listed in the attribute's button types section.

Example

>

HTML

<button id="button" type="reset">type</button>

JavaScript

const buttonElement = document.querySelector("#button");
console.log(buttonElement.type); // "reset"

Specifications

Specification
HTML>
# dom-button-type>

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
type 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLButtonElement/type