$('a').each(function()
{
$(this).attr('title', $(this).text());
});
Keep in mind, though, that an anchor might have an image inside,
rather than text. I doubt it'd be an issue. I guess jquery would
simply set it to the empty string.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jonny Stephens <goo...@bloog.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I want to generate title attributes from existing anchor text, e.g.
>
> <a href="foo.html">Foo Foo</a>
>
> becomes
>
> <a href="foo.html" title="Foo Foo">Foo Foo</a>
>
> The code below works in FF3 with Firebug reporting no errors, but
> Safari reports a parsing error. IE is no go.
>
> $('a').attr('title' , function() $(this).text());
>
> adding curly brackets clears the parsing error in Safari but doesn't
> function in any browser.
>
> $('a').attr('title' , function() { $(this).text() } );
>
> I must be missing something simple here.
