You're close $("table").attr({newProp1: "true", newProp2: "7"});
although to be honest, your selector or mine doesn't make all that much sense since you would seemingly want to set unique properties on each table, something neither line of code does On Apr 7, 1:48 pm, Scott <william.scott.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to add a property (not a class name or id) to all the tables in > a web page. I know I can use $("table") to get all the tables on the > page - can I also do this: > > $("table").each({newProp1:true, newProp2: 7}); > > so that now table.newProp1 == true and table.newProp2 == 7 ???