Question

I have input fields with randomly-ordered ids as follows:

<input type="text" id="start1" />
<input type="text" id="start5"/>
<input type="text" id="start3"/>

I need to change it as below, ordering by a 1 to 10 suffix at the end

<input type="text" id="start1" />
<input type="text" id="start2"/>
<input type="text" id="start3"/>
<input type="text" id="start4"/>

How to do it in jQuery?

Answer 1

$(function() {
    var i = 1;
    $("INPUT[type=text]").each(function() {
        $(this).attr("id", "start" + i);
        i++;
    });
});

The above will work for you.

It needs to be said though, that changing IDs on the fly is a rather odd requirement to have. Is there a specific reason you need to achieve this?