DOM:element.setAttributeNS

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[edit] Summary

setAttributeNS adds a new attribute or changes the value of an attribute with the given namespace and name.

[edit] Syntax

element.setAttributeNS(namespace, name, value)

• namespace is a string specifying the namespace of the attribute.
• name is a string identifying the attribute to be set.
• value is the desired string value of the new attribute.

[edit] Example

var d = document.getElementById("d1"); 
d.setAttributeNS("http://www.mozilla.org/ns/specialspace", "align", "center");

[edit] 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	-

[edit] Specification

DOM Level 2 Core: setAttributeNS