jquery object to the string

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$("h2.trigger").click(function(){
            console.log($(this));

            $(this).toggleClass("active").next().slideToggle("slow");
            var viewName=$(this).attr('id');

            //display approval list ajax method
            var html="";

I'm currently working on a jQuery application and do a console.log($(this));

In Firefox it prints

[h2#vw_hs_hr_wf_admin_data.trigger] this is a object

We can not take it as a plain string as it returns Object object. I would like to assign the "h2#vw_hs_hr_wf_admin_data.trigger" as a plain text to a JavaScript variable.

I tried

alert($(this).id); 
alert($(this).0);

but I have no luck.

What do you need this for? It seems you want the ID concatenated with the classes, but why? — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Jul 8, 2011 at 10:18
want to print "h2#vw_hs_hr_wf_admin_data.trigger" i think this is a object name. why means i want get the current object and put it the php session and get the value lator — Roshan Wijesena
– Roshan Wijesena, Commented Jul 8, 2011 at 10:22
And how is this table related to the h2 element? How do you want to get the "value" given the name/id/whatever? — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Jul 8, 2011 at 10:27

roberkules · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-08 10:22:42Z

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just use the attr method: $(this).attr("id") ?

answered Jul 8, 2011 at 10:22

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Roshan Wijesena Over a year ago

this will return element id only i want full object name to print "h2#vw_hs_hr_wf_admin_data.trigger" i think this is a object name. why means i want get the current object and put it the php session and get the value lator

Felix Kling Over a year ago

@Roshan: As IDs have to be unique, this will be fine if you want to access the same element later on.

Jesper Haug Karsrud · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-08 10:41:55Z

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I don't know what you'd want with this, but this thing makes concatenates the objects properties into what you want. The reason you see it like that in Firefox, is that it does that concatenation internally when presented to the user. Markup in my example is this;

<h2 id="vw_hs_hr_wf_admin_data" class="trigger">Click me</h2>
<p></p>

And then the script does its thing;

(function($) {
    $(function() {
        $('h2.trigger').click(function() {
            var text = getTagNameIdClass(this);
            alert(text);
        });
    });
    function getTagNameIdClass(obj) {
        return (obj.tagName).toLowerCase() + "#" + obj.id + "." + obj.className;
    }
})(jQuery);

Hopefully this helps? :)

answered Jul 8, 2011 at 10:41

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