Question

I’m often finding myself getting various attributes, such as the id of an element or class, then selecting that element and doing something.

What I do now for example is:

  var id = $(this).closest(".item").attr('id');
  $('#'+id).hide();

Is using ‘#’ and including the id the best way to do this? is there a way to maybe chain these actions together?

Thank you!

Answer 1

If you also want the id at the end, you can chain them like this:

 var id = $(this).closest(".item").hide().attr('id');