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Reputation: 8970

Getting an attribute from Text String

I am loading a text string from a database and I need to access the value of an attribute from its parent element.

String:<p lang="en" langDirection="rtl">Stuff and Things</p>

I need to get the value of langDirection from the above mentioned code. It should always be the first instance of it so I don't need to search the string globally.

I achieved what I needed for my PHP parts of code using the following:

<?php preg_match('/langDirection="(.+?)"/', $request->requestDescription, $matches); echo $matches[1]; ?>

Can anyone recommend a way to do this with JS/jQuery?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 52

Answers (3)

Glenn Ferrie
Glenn Ferrie

Reputation: 10390

You could use parseHTML as well: 

var el = $.parseHTML("<p lang=\"en\" langDirection=\"rtl\">Stuff and Things</p>");
console.log($(el).attr("langDirection"));

more info: https://api.jquery.com/jquery.parsehtml/

Upvotes: 0

Sleek Geek
Sleek Geek

Reputation: 4686

Try the method below.

var $theAttr = $("p").attr("langDirection");
alert($theAttr);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p lang="en" langDirection="rtl">Stuff and Things</p>

Upvotes: 1

Tomer
Tomer

Reputation: 17930

It is very simple using jQuery:

 var strFromServer = '<p lang="en" langDirection="rtl">Stuff and Things</p>';
 $(strFromServer ).attr('langDirection');

Upvotes: 4

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