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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