Element

class

Element is a subclass of Node, so inherits all the attributes of that class.

getAttribute: Return the value of the attribute named by name as a string.
getAttributeNode: Return the Attr node for the attribute named by attrname.
getAttributeNodeNS: Return an attribute value as a node, given a namespaceURI and localName.
getAttributeNS: Return the value of the attribute named by namespaceURI and localName as a string.
getElementsByTagName: Same as equivalent method in the Document class.
getElementsByTagNameNS: Same as equivalent method in the Document class.

hasAttribute: Return True if the element has an attribute named by name.
hasAttributeNS: Return True if the element has an attribute named by namespaceURI and localName.

removeAttribute: Remove an attribute by name.
removeAttributeNode: Remove and return oldAttr from the attribute list, if present.
removeAttributeNS: Remove an attribute by name.

setAttribute: Set an attribute value from a string.
setAttributeNode: Add a new attribute node to the element, replacing an existing attribute if necessary if the name attribute matches.
setAttributeNodeNS: Add a new attribute node to the element, replacing an existing attribute if necessary if the namespaceURI and localName attributes match.
setAttributeNS: Set an attribute value from a string, given a namespaceURI and a qname.
setIdAttribute: Declare that the attribute name is of type ID, so that the element is found by Document.getElementById().
setIdAttributeNode: The same as setIdAttribute(), but for an already retrieved attribute node.
setIdAttributeNS: The same as setIdAttribute(), but for an attribute specified by its namespace URI and local name.