Question

is it possible in jquery to get the value .attr() of (this) object?

an alert(this) returns true[object HTMLInputElement] so the == wont work

  $("#tag1, #tag2").keyup(function(event){
         if(this == "#tag1"){
            alert("This is tag1");
            };
         if(this == "#tag2"){
            alert("This is tag1");
                };      

thx
Art

Answer 1

It is not possible to get the selector that caused the current element to be matched – there are many possible selectors for a given element. While it would be theoretically possible if the jQuery object created by $("#tag1, #tag2") was still available, it would be incredibly ugly.

However, you can simply use this.id to access the element’s ID ('tag1' or 'tag2' in your case) and use it in your code:

$("#tag1, #tag2").keyup(function(event) {
    if(this.id == "tag1") {
        alert("This is tag1");
    }
    if(this.id == "tag2") {
        alert("This is tag1");
    }
});

If there is no common code at all for the two elements it’s much better to use two selectors and functions instead of putting everything in a single function.