Add attributes to an html element

HTML DOM Element setAttribute()

The setAttribute() method sets a new value to an attribute.

If the attribute does not exist, it is created first.

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Syntax

Parameters

Parameter	Description
name	Required. The name of the attribute.
value	Required. The new attribute value.

Return Value

Note

It is possible to add a style attribute with a value to an element, but it is not recommended because it can overwrite other properties in the style attribute.

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More Examples

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Change the value of the target attribute to «_self»:

Browser Support

element.setAttribute() is a DOM Level 1 (1998) feature.

It is fully supported in all browsers:

Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9-11

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Element: setAttribute() method

Sets the value of an attribute on the specified element. If the attribute already exists, the value is updated; otherwise a new attribute is added with the specified name and value.

To get the current value of an attribute, use getAttribute() ; to remove an attribute, call removeAttribute() .

Syntax

Parameters

A string specifying the name of the attribute whose value is to be set. The attribute name is automatically converted to all lower-case when setAttribute() is called on an HTML element in an HTML document.

A string containing the value to assign to the attribute. Any non-string value specified is converted automatically into a string.

Boolean attributes are considered to be true if they’re present on the element at all. You should set value to the empty string ( «» ) or the attribute’s name, with no leading or trailing whitespace. See the example below for a practical demonstration.

Since the specified value gets converted into a string, specifying null doesn’t necessarily do what you expect. Instead of removing the attribute or setting its value to be null , it instead sets the attribute’s value to the string «null» . If you wish to remove an attribute, call removeAttribute() .

Return value

Exceptions

The specified attribute name contains one or more characters which are not valid in attribute names.

Examples

In the following example, setAttribute() is used to set attributes on a .

HTML

button  height: 30px; width: 100px; margin: 1em; > 

JavaScript

const button = document.querySelector("button"); button.setAttribute("name", "helloButton"); button.setAttribute("disabled", ""); 

This demonstrates two things:

• The first call to setAttribute() above shows changing the name attribute’s value to «helloButton». You can see this using your browser’s page inspector (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari).
• To set the value of a Boolean attribute, such as disabled , you can specify any value. An empty string or the name of the attribute are recommended values. All that matters is that if the attribute is present at all, regardless of its actual value, its value is considered to be true . The absence of the attribute means its value is false . By setting the value of the disabled attribute to the empty string ( «» ), we are setting disabled to true , which results in the button being disabled.

DOM methods dealing with element’s attributes:

Not namespace-aware, most commonly used methods	Namespace-aware variants (DOM Level 2)	DOM Level 1 methods for dealing with Attr nodes directly (seldom used)	DOM Level 2 namespace-aware methods for dealing with Attr nodes directly (seldom used)
setAttribute (DOM 1)	setAttributeNS	setAttributeNode	setAttributeNodeNS
getAttribute (DOM 1)	getAttributeNS	getAttributeNode	getAttributeNodeNS
hasAttribute (DOM 2)	hasAttributeNS	—	—
removeAttribute (DOM 1)	removeAttributeNS	removeAttributeNode	—

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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Gecko notes

Using setAttribute() to modify certain attributes, most notably value in XUL, works inconsistently, as the attribute specifies the default value. To access or modify the current values, you should use the properties. For example, use Element.value instead of Element.setAttribute() .

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Add attributes to an html element

If I load the page from the example above, I can see that the attributes are applied to the element.

# Create an Element with Style attribute using JavaScript

To create an element with a style attribute:

1. Use the document.createElement() method to create the element.
2. Use the setAttribute() method to set the style attribute on the element.
3. Add the element to the page using the appendChild() method.

Here is the HTML for the example.

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DOCTYPE html> html lang="en"> head> title>bobbyhadz.comtitle> meta charset="UTF-8" /> head> body> div id="box">div> script src="index.js"> script> body> html> 

And here is the related JavaScript code.

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// ✅ Create element const el = document.createElement('div'); // ✅ Set Style Attributes on Element el.setAttribute( 'style', 'background-color: salmon; color: white; width: 150px; height: 150px;', ); // ✅ Alternatively, Set styles on Element // el.style.backgroundColor = 'salmon'; // el.style.color = 'white'; // el.style.width = '150px'; // el.style.height = '150px'; // ✅ Add text content to the element el.textContent = 'Hello world'; // ✅ Or set the innerHTML of the element // el.innerHTML = `Hello world`; // ✅ add element to DOM const box = document.getElementById('box'); box.appendChild(el); 

We used the document.createElement method to create the element.

The only parameter we passed to the method is the type of element to be created ( div in the example).

The createElement method returns the newly created element.

We used the setAttribute method to set the style attribute on the element.

The setAttribute method takes 2 parameters:

1. name — the name of the attribute whose value is to be set.
2. value — the value to assign to the attribute.

If the attribute already exists, the value is updated, otherwise, a new attribute is added with the specified name and value.

Alternatively, you can use the style object to set styles on the element.

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const el = document.createElement('div'); el.style.backgroundColor = 'salmon'; el.style.color = 'white'; el.style.width = '150px'; el.style.height = '150px'; 

When setting styles using the style property, multi-name words are camel-cased.

You can use the textContent property to set the element’s text content or the innerHTML property to set the element’s inner HTML markup.

You shouldn’t use the innerHTML property with user-provided data without escaping it. This would leave your application open to cross-site scripting attacks.

You can use the appendChild method to add the element to the page.

The method adds a node to the end of the list of children of the element it was called on.

If I load the page from the example, I can see that the style attribute is successfully set on the element.

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