Element: localName property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The Element.localName read-only property returns the local part of the qualified name of an element.

Value

A string representing the local part of the element's qualified name.

Examples

(Must be served with XML content type, such as text/xml or application/xhtml+xml.)

xml
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<head>
  <script type="application/javascript"><![CDATA[
  function test() {
    const text = document.getElementById('text');
    const circle = document.getElementById('circle');

    text.value = "<svg:circle> has:\n" +
                 "localName = '" + circle.localName + "'\n" +
                 "namespaceURI = '" + circle.namespaceURI + "'";
  }
  ]]></script>
</head>
<body onload="test()">
  <svg:svg version="1.1"
    width="100px" height="100px"
    viewBox="0 0 100 100">
    <svg:circle cx="50" cy="50" r="30" style="fill:#aaa" id="circle"/>
  </svg:svg>
  <textarea id="text" rows="4" cols="55"/>
</body>
</html>

Notes

The local name of a node is that part of the node's qualified name that comes after the colon. Qualified names are typically used in XML as part of the namespace(s) of the particular XML documents. For example, in the qualified name ecomm:partners, partners is the local name and ecomm is the prefix:

xml
<ecomm:business id="soda_shop" type="brick_n_mortar" xmlns:ecomm="http://example.com/ecomm">
  <ecomm:partners>
    <ecomm:partner id="1001">Tony's Syrup Warehouse
    </ecomm:partner>
  </ecomm:partner>
</ecomm:business>

Note: While the property returns the case of the internal DOM storage, which is lower case, note that tagName property returns upper case for HTML elements in HTML DOMs.

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-element-localname①

Browser compatibility

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See also