Question

I need to pass some values from the database to the <li> tag. Is the following acceptable and is it the correct way?

<li id='$current_row["RA_SUB_ID"]' component_name='$current_row["RA_SUB_NAME"]'    pub_id='$current_row["RA_SUB_PUBLIC_ID"]'>

Thanks for your help 🙂

Answer 1

An li tag only displays one text value (some browsers also support a value attribute). So it depends which one you want. You need to use the following syntax.

<li>$current_row["TEXT_YOU_WANT"]</li>

Optionally you can set an ID to programatically access the element (using client side script, such as JavaScript)

<li id="$current_row["ID_YOU_WANT"]">$current_row["TEXT_YOU_WANT"]</li>

Now if you’d like to set more data to access on the client side, you can use the data- custom attributes.

<li id="$current_row["ID_YOU_WANT"]" data-foo="$current_row["FOO_YOU_WANT"]">$current_row["TEXT_YOU_WANT"]</li>

These can be accessed in jQuery usign the data function.