I'm not sure exactly, but I do know that Firebug can be flaky for me, at times.
--John
On Dec 9, 2007 1:34 PM, Kim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> After doing a bunch more debugging, I think this might
> be a strange firebug problem. I know it's not
> jquery-related, but have you ever heard of firebug not
> properly updating the code while debugging? What I
> notice is that if I perform alerts before and after
> the attr call, it does show the correct values for the
> attributes I'm trying to overwrite (by just using
> attr). THe problem was, the lines of code in firebug
> were sometimes changing, mostly not, so I think I
> inaccurately assumed it was a jquery problem.
>
> thanks!
> -kim
>
>
>
> --- John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you have some example code? That shouldn't fail
> > for any particular reason.
> >
> > --John
> >
> > On Dec 9, 2007 4:30 AM, Kim Johnson
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I just spent the last hour trying to figure out
> > why a
> > > piece of jquery wasn't working, and finally
> > tracked it
> > > down to inaccurately assuming you could overwrite
> > an
> > > attribute with attr. Using attr to blank out
> > values
> > > (ex: .attr("name", "")) seems to work fine, but as
> > > soon as I try to use it with an actual variable
> > (ex:
> > > .attr("id", idvar)), nothing happns.
> > >
> > > I finally discovered that the code worked
> > perfectly if
> > > I called removeAttr("id") first, prior to the
> > > .attr("id", idvar) call.
> > >
> > > Can anyone explain to me why overwriting doesn't
> > work
> > > with attr? Is this a bug? Am I missing some kind
> > of
> > > core concept?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > ~Kim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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