getNamedItem() in IE6 & IE7

How to access element’s attribute (<element name=”value”>) in JavaScript?

It would seem that this code is the answer:

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return element.attributes["name"];

If you want to support IE 6 & 7 - it is not so easy!

Here is the appropriate equivalent for those browsers:

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for(var i=0; i<element.attributes.length; i++) {
  if(element.attributes[i].name == 'nazwa') {
    return element.attributes[i].value;
  }
}

Yes, IE supports getNamedItem() method only since version 8! See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536441(v=vs.85).aspx