Getting and setting values
Manipulating the the HTML requires getting and setting the values of attributes for the different elements. jQuery usually uses the same function to do get and set a property. When you want to set a value, you will pass it to the function as a string, or sometimes integer. get a value, you don't.
The various methods are described in the Attributes method of the jQuery 1.4 cheatsheet. Here are some examples
Run
Clear
- Get HTML
- Set HTML
- Get title
- Set title
- Get css color
Do live:
Set the css color to 'blue'
Set the redbox height
Set the value of text_input
Set the HTML of redbox to the value of text_input
This paragraph has a id: "example1" title: "example title" and the color is defined.
class = box
id = redbox
id = redbox
Methods used
- .html http://api.jquery.com/html/
- .attr http://api.jquery.com/attr/
- .css http://api.jquery.com/css/
- .height http://api.jquery.com/height/
- .width http://api.jquery.com/width/