I don't think I full understand where your data is or where it's
coming from. But heres an example from what I can understand.
$('ul.actions a').each(function() {
var $this = $(this);
$this.attr('href', $this.attr('href') + '#somewhere');
});
On Nov 18, 8:55 pm, Eric Lanehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> In advance of my question below I must say that I'm a designer that
> has HTML/CSS down very well, and I can deal with Ruby/PHP in my
> templates to do some pretty basic variable stuff and conditional
> logic. My attempts to pick up Javascript though have always fallen
> pretty short. Tried Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting book, but got lost
> pretty quick once I tried applying the knowledge. I got introduced to
> jQuery through Klaus Hartl's Tabs plug-in (now apart of jQuery UI),
> which is literally going to change the design process at my company
> quite a bit =) I can't wait for the new version of his Remote plugin.
> I've since picked up Learning jQuery and made it up through Chapter 6,
> but it hasn't answered my question thus far and the next chapter is
> about AJAX (!). The API reference hasn't been of much help either.
> Also looked through quite a few threads here, also couldn't find what
> I'm looking for.
>
> So I think my question is probably going to be pretty dumb, which is
> why I gave you all the treatise of an explanation above! I'm trying to
> access the href attribute of elements that match a certain selector,
> grab whatever is there for each matched element, and append a standard
> string to whatever is already there.
>
> For example, I want to find every element that matches ul.actions a,
> and append the anchor link #somewhere to the end of each link (as
> specified in the href attribute). The attr method of course doesn't do
> this as it wipes out the contents. I'm sure there must be a way of
> saying add "this" to what's already there, i.e.:
>
> attr($this + '#somewhere');
>
> But I can't quite figure out the syntax. I loosely remember this.href
> from DOM Scripting so I tried searching around that, and I think I
> might also need to use the each method? And if there is no built-in
> facility for saying "keep whatever is there", would I maybe have to
> fetch that stuff first assign them to variables, and then go the route
> I started to go above? I'm lost as to what exact combination of these
> things will do the trick though.
>
> Help! (and thank you very much for your time)
