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 HTMLLinkElement interface is a string that reflects the MIME type of the linked resource.
It reflects the type attribute of the <link> element.
A string, which must be a valid MIME type string.
<link id="el" rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="apple-icon-114.png" type="image/png" />
const el = document.getElementById("el");
console.log(el.type); // Output: "image/png"
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-link-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 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLLinkElement/type