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ReynierPM
ReynierPM

Reputation: 18660

Switch element types but keeping the same IDs

I need to change the element type dynamically and below is how I am doing it:

$(function() {
  $('.click_me').click(function(ev) {
    var condition_value_1 = $('#condition_value_1');
    var select_html = '<select name="condition_value_1" id="condition_value_1"></select>';
    condition_value_1.after().html(select_html);
    condition_value_1.remove();
  });
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="condition_value_1">
<span class="click_me">Click Me</span>

After change the types as you see on the snippet above I should remove the previous element but because they share (and this is mandatory) the same ID then the new SELECT gets deleted. Is there any way to avoid this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (2)

Kevin Kloet
Kevin Kloet

Reputation: 1086

use the name attribute instead of the id to delete

$(function() {
  $('.click_me').click(function(ev) {
    var condition_value_1 = $('#condition_value_1');
    var select_html = '<select name="condition_value_1" id="condition_value_1"></select>';
    condition_value_1.after().html(select_html);
    $('[name="ElementNameHere"]')[0].remove();
  });
});

note that this will only delete the first entry it gets into when searching the DOM.

Upvotes: 1

Keith
Keith

Reputation: 24191

If you want to replace, you can use replaceWith..

$(function() {
  $('.click_me').click(function(ev) {
    var condition_value_1 = $('#condition_value_1');
    var select_html = '<select name="condition_value_1" id="condition_value_1"></select>';
    condition_value_1.replaceWith(select_html);
  });
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="condition_value_1">
<span class="click_me">Click Me</span>

Upvotes: 5

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