Wow, I just uploaded a simple plugin that does this:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/getAttributes and then saw your
post.
On Feb 21, 9:07 am, RotinPain <rotinpain....@gmail.com> wrote:
> After searching the web with no answer, I really need some help about
> attributes in jquery
>
> Here's the plan:
> I want to retrieve ALL the attributes from a tag for applying them to
> another tag.
>
> Problem#1: i don't know how many attributes the tag will possess.
> Problem#2: i don't know what attributes will be used.
>
> For example i will have a sample tag like that (attributes can vary) :
> <table border="1" width="760" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3" id="t">
>
> I want to take all the attributes and apply them to another empty
> <table> tag.
>
> Using DOM manipulation without jquery, it works fine :
> [code]
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
> window.onload = function () {
> var contbl = document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0];
> table = document.createElement("table");
> for (i=0;i<contbl.attributes.length;i++){
> if (contbl.attributes[i].specified)
> table.setAttribute(contbl.attributes[i].nodeName,
> contbl.attributes[i].nodeValue);
> }
> rowA = table.insertRow(0); cell = rowA.insertCell(0);
> cell.innerText = "New table";
> document.body.appendChild(table);
> }
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <table border="1" width="760" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3">
> <tbody>
> <tr>
> <td>First table</td>
> </tr>
> </tbody>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
> [/code]
>
> But when I try to reproduce such manipulation using jquery i can't
> find no solution!
>
> I hope that one of you could give me a tip about converting this to
> jquery, or maybe it's not possible ? Thanx for your help
