Remove rel attribute from a tag [duplicate]

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remove attribute of html tag

I have some jQuery in my code that adds a rel attribute to all a tags in my code. I don't want to remove the code that adds these rel attributes but instead wanted to remove these rel attributes using JavaScript/jQuery. I am able to do reset the rel attributes to empty string thus:

var $this = $(this);
var $items = $this.find('a');
$items.attr('rel', '');

Instead though, what I'd like to do is remove the rel tag altogether. Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Try removeAttr() http://api.jquery.com/removeAttr/

$items.removeAttr('rel');