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XML DOM hasAttribute() Method

Element Object Reference

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Definition and Usage

The hasAttribute() method returns TRUE if the current element node has the attribute specified by name, and FALSE otherwise.

Syntax

hasAttribute(name)

Parameter	Description
name	Required. Specifies the attribute to find

Example

TThe following code fragment loads "books.xml" into xmlDoc using loadXMLDoc() and checks if the first <book> element has any "category" attributes:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book")[0];

document.write(x.hasAttribute("category"));

Output:

true

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hasAttribute() - Checks if an element has the specified attribute

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