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internet man
internet man

Reputation: 838

Is it bad practice to assign a css class for the sole purpose of finding it with jQuery?

I'm using ASP.NET, not the newest one with that clientIdMode stuff. So, the control ids are generated and funky.

There are lots of ways of passing ids around, but lately I've been assigning a 'fake' css class to the control I'm interested in. Then in a js file I use jQuery to find the control.

Is this bad practice? It seems a lot like the ajaxControlToolkit's behaviorId to me... Is the behaviorId bad practice as well?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 193

Answers (3)

Peter Horne
Peter Horne

Reputation: 6846

CSS classes are used to describe an element. Using a class to describe an element so that you can ientify it later is exactly what it was designed for. For this reason I would argue that it is the right thing to do.

Upvotes: 2

Jerod Venema
Jerod Venema

Reputation: 44632

It's a great way to do things; I've done this plenty. The auto-generated IDs suck, although if you leave the runat="server" off, you can use those too. (I know it's not always an option, but for when it is an option, you can do so).

Upvotes: 8

David Murdoch
David Murdoch

Reputation: 89322

CSS classes are good. ASP.net classes are bad.

What I do is prepend js_ to any of my Javascript only CSS classes so I don't get confused later.

Upvotes: 1

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