I'm trying to convert something like this HTML snippet:
<ul>
<li><span>Frank</span><img src="pic.jpg"></li>
<li><span>Steve</span><img src="pic2.jpg"></li>
</ul>
into a JavaScript objects that contain the name and the image's url. How can I do that?
Use map() method
var res = $('ul li').map(function() { // select all li and iterate
// return as required format of array elemnt
return {
name: $('span', this).text(), // get text in span
src: $('img', this).attr('src') // get src attribute
}
}).get(); // get array from jquery object
console.log(res);<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
<li><span>Frank</span>
<img src="pic.jpg">
</li>
<li><span>Steve</span>
<img src="pic2.jpg">
</li>
</ul>UPDATE : If you want to generate an object which has key as span text and value as src attribute then use each() method and iterate over elements and generate object.
var res = {};
$('ul li').each(function() { // select all li and iterate
res[$('span', this).text().trim()] = $('img', this).attr('src');
})
console.log(res);<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul>
<li><span>Frank</span>
<img src="pic.jpg">
</li>
<li><span>Steve</span>
<img src="pic2.jpg">
</li>
</ul>
var objs = document.querySelectorAll('.to-js-obj li');
var objs_arr = [];
if (objs) {
for (var i = 0; i < objs.length; i++) {
var name = objs[i].querySelector('span').innerText;
var url = objs[i].querySelector('img').src;
objs_arr.push({
name: name,
src: url
});
}
console.log(JSON.stringify(objs_arr));
}<ul class="to-js-obj">
<li><span>Frank</span>
<img src="pic.jpg">
</li>
<li><span>Steve</span>
<img src="pic2.jpg">
</li>
</ul>Using jQuery
var $list = $('ul'), // get the list (ideally, add an ID)
$listItems = $list.find('li'); // find list items
if( $listItems.length > 0 ) { // if list items exist
var images = []; // create empty array to store objects
$.each( $listItems, function( index ) { // loop through the list items
var $item = $( $listItems[index] ); // save item as jQuery element
var name = $item.find('span').text(); // Get name from span
var imageSrc = $item.find('img').attr('src'); // Get img src
images[index] = {}; // Create new object in array
images[index].name = name; // Add name
images[index].imageSrc = imageSrc; // Add source
});
}
Returns
[Object {
imageSrc: "pic.jpg",
name: "Frank"
}, Object {
imageSrc: "pic2.jpg",
name: "Steve"
}]
You can use this:
var image_pairs = [];
$("ul li").each(function() {
image_pairs.push({
name: $(this).find("span").text(),
url: $(this).find("img").attr("src")
});
});
console.log(image_pairs);<ul>
<li><span>Frank</span><img src="pic.jpg"></li>
<li><span>Steve</span><img src="pic2.jpg"></li>
</ul>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>