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How to get the attributes of a HTML element using JQuery?

I have a piece of JS and I need to read property ‘value’ from a div.

I do this:

$('#calendar_event_path')

I get this as and answer:

[<div id=​"calendar_event_path" value=​"company_events_index">​</div>​]

How can I get “company_events_index” value from the div?

Answer 1

use data-value attribute in your html

<div id=​"calendar_event_path" data-value=​"company_events_index">​</div>

the in jQuery fetch its value using data()

var sumthng = $('#calendar_event_path').data("value");