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As long as the submit button attribute called 'attr';

1. $(document).ready( function () {
2.         alert(("#SubmitButton").attr("attr"));
3. });

I am trying to throw an alert with the attributes of a submit button in the alert.

What am I doing wrong?

$("document").ready( function () {
        alert("#SubmitButton").attr("attr", value);
        $alert("#SubmitButton").attr("attr", value);
});

The jQuery attr() function may or may not return attributes. Sometimes it returns properties, sometimes attributes, sometimes it depends on the browser whether it returns an attribute or a property value.

When dealing with the DOM, it is nearly always easier and more reliabale to get properties, there is rarely a reason to use attributes with script at all.

So what do you really want, attributes or properties?


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Rob

Rob, it seemed to me that the attr() method would display all of my property/values in my submit button.  I wasn't necessarily trying to see anything in specific, but I couldn't get it to work at all.  Also, I wanted to see if there was a difference between throwing a JavaScript alert and throwing a jQuery alert.

I thought I would see an alert with something like:
      name="submitbuttonname" / disabled="disabled" / class="whateverclass"
But I got it do to nothing.

Is there a way to display the values of any selector like above?

Is there a difference between these two alerts?

$(alert("some words"));
alert("some words");

I am very new to jQuery and was doing some exploring.

There is no difference between the alerts that you show.

If you want to see something like you thought you'd see do something like this;

alert($('thisElement').attr('name');

Substitute 'name' with any of the attribute names that the element has.