jQuery support custom attributes, may be you can post a sample?
Anyway, this works
$(document).ready(function(){
alert($("[custom='test']").length);
});
<input type="text" id="text1" name="text1" custom="test" />
<input type="text" id="text2" name="text2" custom="test" />
<input type="text" id="text3" name="text3" custom="test" />
<input type="text" id="text4" name="text4" custom="test" />
On Aug 5, 10:04 am, Miket3 <miketro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One issue I ran across while learning jquery was that I often wanted/
> needed a way to tell jquery to get data for the current element from a
> related element. jQuery immediately tends to be friendly when you need
> to work with a class of elements via the CLASS attribute, or a
> specific element via the ID attribute. However, when there are 2
> elements that are related but do not fit within a class, a beginner
> such as myself may have a little trouble trying to find the best way
> to handle this issue. At this point we begin to research how to get
> jQuery to recognize a custom attribute, because common rules says that
> the ID attrib is basically out of the question as this needs to be
> unique to each element. And the CLASS attrib just doesn't logically
> help either because it can refer to too many other elements that don't
> fit our rule. And when we find out that jQuery doesn't readily
> recognize custom attributes it can get a little intimidating because
> one of the solutions is to extend jQuery. But there are a couple of
> other standard attributes that are recognized but rarely used. In my
> particular case I started using the TITLE attribute for relating my
> elements. But then I stumbled upon the correct way, (or at least until
> someone corrects me on this post). There is a REL attribute which can
> be used to RELATE the to elements. So when you feel like you need a
> custom attribute, you might not need one, the REL is available and the
> TITLE could be used as a backup if necessary.
>
> I hope this helps someone.
