Question

I have the following code which is setting the target, href & textcontent for an element in HTML, this was working perfectly fine in JQuery 1.4.1 & 1.5.1 but after updating to 1.7.1 it does not change the ‘textcontent’ property of the visible element, the href has been updated.

 $("#uriEmma").attr('textcontent', emmaUri);
 $("#uriEmma").attr('href', emmaUri);
 $("#uriEmma").attr('target', '_blank');

Any ideas why this might be?

Answer 1

You should use .prop() and proper casing: textContent. Example

From documentation:

The difference between attributes and properties can be important in
specific situations. Before jQuery 1.6, the .attr() method sometimes
took property values into account when retrieving some attributes,
which could cause inconsistent behavior. As of jQuery 1.6, the .prop()
method provides a way to explicitly retrieve property values, while
.attr() retrieves attributes.