Question

I am trying to get the following simple function to open divs with the same name of the grabbed “name” attributes in other divs, any help would be appreciated.

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(document).ready(function(){
 $('.div').click(function(){
     var nip = (this).attr("name");
     $('#nip').show()
 })
    });

 </script>  

Answer 1

Use $(this).attr("name") instead of (this).attr("name") to get the name. Then, use $('#' + nip) to select the desired element.

Your current selector does not work, because the variable name is contained within quotes, causing "nip" to be literally interpreted as "nip".

$(function() {
    $('.div').click(function() {
        var nip = $(this).attr('name');
        $('#' + nip).show();
    });
});