oops ... in my example i used event.target.id ... it's event.target like so ...
$(document).ready(function() { $('body').click(function(event) { if ($(event.target).is('.touchRfq')) { var touchco = $(event.target).attr("name"); alert(touchco); }); }); }); On Jan 16, 12:50 pm, skatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in this issue First off ... i'm using ajax to pull elements into the > DOM. So my code uses this (there are probably better ways to do > this) ... > > $(document).ready(function() { > > $('body').click(function(event) { > > if ($(event.target).is('.touchRfq')) { > > var touchco = $(event.target.id).attr("name"); > > alert(touchco); > > }); > }); > > why isn't this grabbing the name on this? in IE7 and FF2 it's fine ... > but IE 6 fails to grab the "name" attribute. > > any thoughts?