Nuno Silva

Getting an html element Attribute

To do this i use mootools, a very fast and handy JavaScript framework.

Imagine that you got an element as following:


<img id="image" src="..." aaa="true" />

To get the value attribute “aaa” using mootools you only need to do the following:


$("image").getAttribute("aaa");

This solution will work in all browsers.

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25 Jun 08 | Html and Css, Programming, Web

2 Responses to “Getting an html element Attribute”

André Luís | June 25th, 2008 at 9:05 am

In that line, the only thing you need mootools for is getting the element.

You don’t need to include an entire framework to do that… try:

document.getElementById(’image’).getAttribute(’aaa’);

Native javascript FTW!!!

Oh, if you reeeeeeally like that dollar function:

function $(id) { return document.getElementById(id); }

There.
Nuno Silva | June 25th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

You actually right. I don’t know how i didn’t see that. Or was because it was 5 a.m when i wrote this post, or it’s to much mootools….

Thanks for the correction André

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My name is Nuno Silva and I am the author of this blog. I am a Computer Engineer and have a passion for game development.

So, in this blog you find especially things about the web, game development, software, my personal projects (Orion's belt for instance) and, sometimes, just crazy things that pass through my head.