Element: removeAttributeNS() method

The removeAttributeNS() method of the Element interface removes the specified attribute from an element.

Syntax

removeAttributeNS(namespace, attrName)

Parameters

namespace is a string that contains the namespace of the attribute.
attrName is a string that names the attribute to be removed from the current node.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

// Given:
//   <div id="div1" xmlns:special="http://www.mozilla.org/ns/specialspace"
//     special:specialAlign="utterleft" width="200px" />
d = document.getElementById("div1");
d.removeAttributeNS("http://www.mozilla.org/ns/specialspace", "specialAlign");
// Now: <div id="div1" width="200px" />

Notes

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

Specification
DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-element-removeattributens①

Browser compatibility

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In Firefox 3 and later, this method resets DOM values to their defaults.