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TaylorMac
TaylorMac

Reputation: 9002

How to identify a DIV without using an ID or a class name

So I just need a reminder,

Every element can only have 1 id, but multiple classes are possible,

But what if I would like to have 2 ways to uniquely identify an object without classes?

I cant remember the name of it, something like Tagname, that can be used in addition to ID.

And how would you identify this object in jQuery?

For classes it is: $('.class'), for ID's it is $('#id') but what about this thing that I am vaguely describing?

Taylor

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3766

Answers (2)

Tim M.
Tim M.

Reputation: 54368

I cant remember the name of it, something like Tagname, that can be used in addition to ID.

You might be thinking of GetElementsByTagName() but that will return a collection: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/element.getElementsByTagName.

You can use arbitrary attributes in any modern browser (jQuery does this behind the scenes). So you can put whatever attribute you want on an element and locate it using a jQuery attribute selector (as @Dave pointed out in his answer).

<div myAttribute="foo"></div>

<script>

var element = $("div[myAttribute='foo']"); // matches all divs with "myAttribute" set

</script>

There are many options: http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

Upvotes: 7

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 29121

Just use the "name" attribute:

<div id="something" name="something"></div>

Then reference it by the id like usual, or by the name like this:

$('[name="something"]')

Info on on this selector here.

Upvotes: 2

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