HTMLLinkElement: rel 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 rel property of the HTMLLinkElement interface reflects the rel attribute. It is a string containing a space-separated list of link types indicating the relationship between the resource represented by the <link> element and the current document.

The most common use of this attribute is to specify a link to an external style sheet: the property is set to stylesheet, and the href attribute is set to the URL of an external style sheet to format the page.

Value

A string.

Examples

js
const links = document.getElementsByTagName("link");
for (const link of links) {
  console.log(link);
}

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-link-rel

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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