Question

I’ve seen this done, but I can’t find an example anymore. What I’d like is to switch a jQuery action… the code below is just an example, it is not the code I am using, I’m just trying to remember how this works.

var action = (getURL) ? "attr('href')" : "html()";
alert( "The result is" + $('#myLink')[action] );

I also tried

var action = (getURL) ? ".attr('href')" : ".html()";
alert( "The result is" + $('#myLink')[action] );

sorry my memory stinks and I couldn’t find an example of this in the jQuery docs either. I’m not even sure if those are called “actions”.

Answer 1

So you want to switch the function call?

Given that approach, you probably need two separate variables:

var action = (getURL) ? "attr" : "html";
var param = (getURL) ? 'href' : null;
alert( "The result is" + $('#myLink')[action](param));

But why not use an if statement like normal?

if (getURL)
    alert("The result is" + $('#myLink').attr('href'));
else
    alert("The result is" + $('#myLink').html());