jQuery .attr not working.

Question

Hi Folks,

I am working on a sample problem on jsFiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/Q9yHD/

I am trying to add a border to my table with code:

      $("#") + $id).find(".name").attr("border", "thick"); 

But it doesn't seem to be working. What am I doing wrong in here?

Answer 1

If you want to set the border attribute of a <table> remove the extra ), here:

$("#") + $id).find(".name").attr("border", "thick"); 
     ^

To make it this:

$("#" + $id).find(".name").attr("border", "10"); 

Or if you're after CSS styling, you should use .css(), like this:

$("#" + $id).find(".name").css("border", "solid 10px #000"); 

Answer 2

Um, is that the exact code? Seems to be an extra close brace floating at the beginning:

$("#" + $id).find(".name").attr("border", "thick"); 

Answer 3

Looking at the code. If you want to add a border only to a td with a class of 'name' then why not put that in the CSS portion and when you create the table and the eventual

<td class="name">name</td>

That thick style will be applied to it?