I am wondering whether there is a way in which I can get the value within a given HTML element using JQuery?
Example
<span id="45463_test"></span>
(using the proper tags made the code to processed)
What I want is the '45463_test' value within the id attribute (using JQuery).
Thanx for the responses and the edit.
I would it such that I can get the attribute value of a tag which has been clicked.
You kind of need a different selector in order to tell jQuery which span element to look at.
$("span").attr("id")
Which would get the Id attr value of all spans on the page.
For example, if you had
<span id="mySpan" class="mySpanClass"></span>
you could get the IDs of all the spans with class "mySpanClass" using:
$("span[class='mySpanClass']").attr("id")
Documentation here: http://api.jquery.com/attr/
$("span[class='mySpanClass']").attr("id") is not needed, Use: $("span.mySpanClass").attr("id")Get: $("#45463_test").attr('id');
Set: $("#45463_test").attr('id','new value');
If you only want to get the ID of the <span/> you clicked then it's better to apply a click event handler to each span and catch the attribute value.
$("span").click(function() {
return $(this).attr("id");
});
can't help but noticed,
you need something like this..
$("span").click(function() {
alert(this.id);
});
