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HTML attributes vs DOM properties – JakeArchibald.com

May 1, 2024

  • DOM
  • HTML
  • JavaScript

Attributes and properties are fundamentally different things. You can have an attribute and property of the same name set to different values

Source: HTML attributes vs DOM properties – JakeArchibald.com

There are subtleties to web technologies we sometimes overlook, in part because they often don’t see, to matter, until they do.

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