Question

In Ruby you can use string interpolation like so:

text = "This is visit number #{numVisits} to this website"

This bypasses the need for explicit concatenation.

I’m working with jQuery and have a bit like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("a.ajax").click(function(event){
        $("#content").load("data.html this.getClass");
    });
});

The behavior I want is “click on <a class="ajax" id="schedule"></a> and the content div on the current page is replaced by the schedule div from data.html. If I manually write in

load("data.html #test"); 

that works, but I want the script to load the DIV with the ID value of the anchor clicked. Any help would be swell!

Example Page: http://www.mariahandalex.info/stack/

Answer 1

You cannot embed javascript code inside a string, but you can concatenate a string to an object using ‘+’ like so

$('#content').load('data.html #' + $(this).getClass());

About embedding code in a string, I don’t think it has a name. Groovy calls those strings “Gstring“s, and ruby calls those ‘Expression substitution in strings‘. I’m not sure it has a standard name.