Thanks for everyone's respnses. attr("id") did the trick. - Dave
On Apr 18, 3:18 pm, "Brad Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I asked a similar question awhile ago and was told that id() and
> name() were removed in a prior version to clean up the jQuery API. I'd
> written some code based on examples from the mailing list archive and
> was getting the not a function error too. Use .attr("id") and
> .attr("name") instead.
>
> On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I have this expression
>
> > var parentElt = $("#newTabText").parents("td.topTab:first");
> > alert(parentElt.id());
>
> > and I'm getting a JS error on the second line, "id" is not a
> > function. I have verified, through another alert statement, that
> > "parentElt" is non-empty, contains a value, and has an "id"
> > attribute. What expression should I write to get the proper id?
>
> > Thanks, - Dave
