HTMLButtonElement: type property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

Thetype property of theHTMLButtonElement interface is a string that indicates the behavior type of the<button> element.

It reflects thetype attribute of the<button> element.

Value

A string representing the type.

Its possible values are listed in the attribute'sbutton types section.

html

<button type="reset">type</button>

const buttonElement = document.querySelector("#button");console.log(buttonElement.type); // "reset"

Specification
HTML # dom-button-type

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