Interesting! That's also the same with labeling object properties. The
label will be casted into their string representation.
<a href="hi.html" id="ya">asdf</a>
$('#ya').click(function(){
a = {};
a[this] = 1;
cache = this;
});
alert(a[cache.toString()]); // alerts 1
On Jun 11, 12:16 pm, Ricardo <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just clearing up what Pierre said: if the argument you passed to alert
> () is not a string, it's .toString() method will be called. For
> convenience, the toString on an anchor HTMLElement object returns it's
> href. Try this:
>
> $('a').get(0).toString();
> or
> $('a').click(function(){
> alert( this.toString() );
> return false;
>
> });
>
> "this" in your code is still an object, it's just the output of
> toString() that is different.
>
> cheers
> -- ricardo
>
> On Jun 11, 1:10 am, "bensan...@gmail.com" <bensan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm confused as to why when I have:
>
> > $('a').click(function(){
> > alert(this);
> > return false;
>
> > });
>
> > the alert displays the URL defined in the href attribute, and not an
> > object.
>
> > Yet, if i call like say an image, it returns the object.
>
> > Thanks
> > ben
