DOM manipulation: Replacing href value with src value of child image

Question

Hi

I have the following html markup:

<div class='photoset'>  
<a href="foo-01.html"><img src="foo-01.jpg" /></a>  
<a href="foo-02.html"><img src="foo-02.jpg" /></a>  
<a href="foo-03.html"><img src="foo-03.jpg" /></a>  
<a href="foo-04.html"><img src="foo-04.jpg" /></a>  
</div>

I want to manuipulate the DOM so that the src value of each image replaces the href value of the parent link element, so that the markup becomes:

<div class='photoset'>  
<a href="foo-01.jpg"><img src="foo-01.jpg" /></a>  
<a href="foo-02.jpg"><img src="foo-02.jpg" /></a>  
<a href="foo-03.jpg"><img src="foo-03.jpg" /></a>  
<a href="foo-04.jpg"><img src="foo-04.jpg" /></a>  
etc...
</div>

Why ever would I want to do this, you ask? I'm pulling images into a page using the Flickr API, but then wish to use the jQuery ColorBox plugin for a gallery effect...and for that I believe I need to render the Flickr-generated markup as above.

Thanks in advance

Andrew

Answer 1

Like this:

$('a:has(img)').attr('href', function() {
    return $(this).find('img').attr('href');
});

Answer 2

$('.photoset a > img').each(function() {
    this.parentNode.href = this.src;
});

This iterates over images that are a child of <a> and are contained in .photoset, and sets the href property of its parentNode to the value of its src.