Question

Sorry guys, didn’t know how to word this one.
Still learning jquery and have searched for the answer but haven’t found anything.

When declaring this variable I would like to add these two parts together but I don’t know how.

  var link = $'page.html' + (this).attr('rel');

That is my attempt but obviously it doesn’t work.

I’m trying to make the variable read “page.html rel > *”
So it will always be referencing the page but then I can store different div id’s in the rel and pass them to .load()

Thanks in advanced!

Answer 1

If I’m understanding you correctly, you’re quite close:

var link = 'page.html ' + $(this).attr('rel') + ' > *';

That will wrap a jQuery instance around this (I’m guessing this is in an event handler function?), retrieve the rel attribute from that element, and put 'page.html ' in front of it and ' > *' after it. So if rel is "#foo", you’d end up with page.html #foo > *.

If the rel won’t have the #, be sure to add it, e.g.:

var link = 'page.html #' + $(this).attr('rel') + ' > *';

I’m not sure you really want the ' > *' part, though, if you’re going to use this with load.