Question

Is there a way to access an elements attributes from a request?

I am receiving a request and I want to access the ‘id’ attribute of the input tag.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

No, use JavaScript to include element attributes as request data (like querystring or post data) in your request.

<form method="post" action="page.jsp" onsubmit="setDataFirst();">
    <input id="container" name="container" type="hidden" value="" />
    <input id="YourElement" class="AttributeClassValue" name="YourElement" type="text" />
</form>


<script type="text/javascript">
    //This function will execute before the form will be submitted...
    function setDataFirst()
    {
        //Set the value of container to the attribute you want to send to server...
        document.getElementById('container').value = 'YourElementClass=' + document.getElementById('YourElement').attributes('class');
        //After the function execution, the form will be submitted...
    }
</script>


Now in your server you can get the value of POST data `container` which is `YourElementClass=AttributeClassValue`