I use .attr() to get the href attribute value, too. If you
use .getAttribute(), IE6 and IE7 require a second argument to really,
truly get the attribute: somelink.getAttribute('href', 2)
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com
On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Scott Sauyet wrote:
> On Dec 13, 11:27 pm, Matt <m...@thekrusefamily.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not going to jump into these murky waters, but I want to follow up
> on this bit:
>
>> As it is now, I always recommend that attr() be avoided in code, and
>> if someone uses it in code I am looking at, I tell them to remove it.
>> It's too fragile and the logic that it is intending to code is not
>> well documented, so we can't depend on it. Luckily, it's easily coded
>> around.
>
> The only place I use attr extensively is when I want the href value of
> a link for further manipulation to unobtrusively convert non-JS
> functionality to JS functionality, most commonly when the href is for
> a document fragment. Do you think it's bad practice to call
>
> var myDiv=$(item.attr('href'));
>
> Obviously I could go down to getAttribute, but I've never had a
> problem using it like this.
>
> -- Scott
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