get attribute from object javascript code example

Example 1: javascript get attribute

//HTML
//<div id="elem" data-id="4hJ3s"></div>

var elem = document.getElementById("elem");
elem.getAttribute("data-id"); // "4hJ3s"

Example 2: how to get element by attribute value in javascript

document.querySelectorAll('[data-foo="value"]');

Example 3: javascript get attribute

<div id="id_of_the_element" data-attribute_name="foo"></div>

var elem = document.getElementById("id_of_the_element");
var attribute_value = elem.getAttribute("data-attribute_name");

//OR with jquery...
var attribute_value = $('#id_of_the_element').attr('data-attribute_name');
//OR...
var attribute_value = $('#id_of_the_element').data('attribute_name');

Example 4: how to a property from a JavaScript object

delete myObject.regex;
// or,
delete myObject['regex'];
// or,
var prop = "regex";
delete myObject[prop];


/** Demo */
var myObject = {
    "ircEvent": "PRIVMSG",
    "method": "newURI",
    "regex": "^http://.*"
};
delete myObject.regex;

console.log(myObject);