Praveen Maheshwari
Praveen Maheshwari

Reputation: 79

How to fecth ID property of LI element under a div tag

I am new to CSS and JQUERY. I want to get all the ids of the LI elements in string under in a JS file to parse further.

<div id="editSortable"> 
    <ul class="sortable-list  ui-sortable">
        <li id="TEXT_1">Test 1</li>
        <li id="TEXT_2">Test 2</li>
        <li id="TEXT_3">Test 3</li>
    </ul>
</div>

I tried below solution but its returning the object and not able to convert it into String

var columns = [];
$(#editSortable+ ' ul.sortable-list').each(function(){
    columns.push($(this).sortable('toArray').join(','));                
});

Kindly suggest.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

BravoZulu
BravoZulu

Reputation: 1140

var columns = [];
$('#editSortable .sortable-list li').each((i, li)  => columns.push(li.id))

console.log(columns)
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="editSortable"> 
    <ul class="sortable-list  ui-sortable">
        <li id="TEXT_1">Test 1</li>
        <li id="TEXT_2">Test 2</li>
        <li id="TEXT_3">Test 3</li>
    </ul>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

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