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
const links = document.getElementsByTagName("link");
for (const link of links) {
console.log(link);
}
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-link-rel |
Browser compatibility
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See also
- The equivalent property on
<a>
and<area>
,HTMLAnchorElement.rel
andHTMLAreaElement.rel
. - The very same list but as tokens:
HTMLLinkElement.relList