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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 17

Adding Attribute to HTML element with jQuery

Utilizing jQuery .children... 

var strHtml = $(dt.row(row_idx).child()).children().children().html();

...to pass in the following HTML:

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>Notes:</td>
    <td>some info</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Assistance Required:</td>
    <td>​Translation, writing and speaking capabilities </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Unit:</td>
    <td>not listed</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>

How do I grab the label cells (<td>Notes:</td>, <td>Assistance Required:</td>, <td>Unit:</td>) and move to their next corresponding value cell to add a colspan property to the <td> and then return the finished html?

The result should look like...

<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>Notes:</td>
    <td colspan="12">some info</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Assistance Required:</td>
    <td colspan="12">Translation, writing and speaking capabilities </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Unit:</td>
    <td colspan="12">not listed</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 58

Answers (1)

Scott Marcus
Scott Marcus

Reputation: 65795

Take your string and load up a temporary element you create in memory only with that string.

You can use the :nth-child() pseudo-class selector to just select the second child <td> element in each row and then use the JQuery .attr() method to add an attribute to those elements:

var strHTML = `<table>
<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>Notes:</td>
    <td>some info</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Assistance Required:</td>
    <td>​Translation, writing and speaking capabilities </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Unit:</td>
    <td>not listed</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>`

// Create a temporary element in memory only
var temp = document.createElement("div");

// Load the string into the temp element
$(temp).html(strHTML);

// Now, you can search through the element

$("td:nth-child(2)", temp).attr("colspan", "12"); // Add the attribtue to the second td in each tr
console.log($(temp).html());  // Get the HTML contents of the <table>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Upvotes: 1

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