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XML DOM prefix Property


Element Object Reference Element Object

Example

The following code fragment loads "books_ns.xml" into xmlDoc and gets the namespace prefix from the first <title> element:

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
��� if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
������� myFunction(xhttp);
��� }
};
xhttp.open("GET", "books_ns.xml", true);
xhttp.send();

function myFunction(xml) {
    var xmlDoc = xml.responseXML;
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
    x.prefix;
}

The output of the code above will be:

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Definition and Usage

The prefix property returns namespace prefix for the selected element

If the selected node is not an element or attribute, this property always returns NULL.

Syntax

elementNode.prefix

Element Object Reference Element Object