element.removeAttributeNS

Summary

removeAttributeNS removes the specified attribute from an element.

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

Syntax

element.removeAttributeNS(namespace, attrName);

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.

Example

// <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	-