Hi Shane,
IE has a second "flag" argument for getAttribute that, when set to 2,
is supposed to get the literal value of the attribute rather than
their special-sauce value.
So, this.getAttribute('href', 2) *should* get the relative href.
(note: no need to do $(this)[0] ; this works just fine)
jQuery uses that flag internally, so .attr('href') should do the same
thing:
var attr = !jQuery.support.hrefNormalized && notxml &&
special
// Some attributes require a special
call on IE
? elem.getAttribute( name, 2 )
: elem.getAttribute( name );
I believe that this works in every case except when the href is set
via JavaScript. In that case, I'm not sure anything can be done.
--Karl
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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com
On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Shane Riley wrote:
Ha! I looked at your post too fast, and didn't notice that it was pure
Javascript. Sorry. I'll try it and see.
The way I currently have it will not work with javascript turned off
either. I'm doing it this way only because the client is requiring the
user to have Javascript enabled to use the site (it's a backend system
for very specific clients). They want to add all sorts of animations
and effects like everyone wants to do once they see JQuery animations
in action.
On Mar 25, 12:14 pm, Martijn Houtman <martijn.hout...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Shane Riley wrote:
Thanks for the article link, but your proposed change isn't valid
JQuery, is it? My exact jQuery code to read in the value looks like
this:
pageID = $(this).attr("href");
Adding what you suggested to make it $(this)[0].attr("href") will
not
do anything apart from force the link to be followed.
Well, no. I suggested using:
pageID = $(this)[0].attr;
This is plain JavaScript, rather than using jQuery's attr() function.
As the article suggests, this works cross-browser.
I think I'm going to have to move the contents of href to rel
instead.
Well, you could, but I wouldn't; this is not what the rel attribute
is meant for. Besides, it would break the anchor when JavaScript is
turned off.
Regards,
--
Martijn.
