jquery - finding the name of the element I have a reference to

Question

In code I have a reference to a DOM element, in Jquery. How do I find out it\'s id? It maybe counter-intuitive, but I need to know that so I can do some manipulations on another

Answer 1

If you have a reference to a DOM element, you can simply access the ID with this.id or element.id.

Here is a list of properties, HTMLElements have.

Answer 2

If you want the id then you can use

$("youelementselector").attr("id");

and if you want elements name then

$("youelementselector").attr("name");

See attr

Answer 3

$(this).attr("id")