Do you have some example code? That shouldn't fail for any particular reason.
--John
On Dec 9, 2007 4:30 AM, Kim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why a
> piece of jquery wasn't working, and finally tracked it
> down to inaccurately assuming you could overwrite an
> attribute with attr. Using attr to blank out values
> (ex: .attr("name", "")) seems to work fine, but as
> soon as I try to use it with an actual variable (ex:
> .attr("id", idvar)), nothing happns.
>
> I finally discovered that the code worked perfectly if
> I called removeAttr("id") first, prior to the
> .attr("id", idvar) call.
>
> Can anyone explain to me why overwriting doesn't work
> with attr? Is this a bug? Am I missing some kind of
> core concept?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Kim
>
>
>
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