Element.removeAttribute()

JavaScript’s Element.removeAttribute() method removes an attribute from the Element.

Syntax

Element.removeAttribute(parameter);

Parameters

A string containing the name of the attribute to remove from the element.

Return value

The removeAttribute() method does not have a return value, which means that the method implicitly returns undefined.

Examples

Here is an example of using the JavaScript removeAttribute() method.

Consider the following line of HTML:

<a href="https://javascriptguide.com" target="_blank">JavaScript Guide</a>

How can we remove the target attribute with JavaScript?

Well, we can select the a element with the querySelector() method and use the removeAttribute() method:

let a = document.querySelector('a');
a.removeAttribute('target');

This is how our HTML looks like now:

<a href="https://javascriptguide.com">JavaScript Guide</a>

Browser compatibility

See also

• Element.getAttribute()
• Element.hasAttribute()
• Element.setAttribute()