Question

This question is related to another one I asked yesterday and its link is:
Parse HTML in jquery through ajax into elements and replace each corresponding on page

Basically i want to call a php page with ajax and replace the elements in the response with the corresponding ones on the page. I got the following function in an answer:

 $(data ).filter('.maindiv').each(function (index) 
  /* "this" is the current div in response*/          
  $('#'+this.id).replaceWith(this);
 });

The above function woeks well when the div I want to replace has a regular id= but if use a custom attribute like gid= for example it won’t work. How can i fix this??

Thanks

Answer 1

You can select node with a gid attribute with:

$('[gid]').replaceWith(this);

you can even be more precise by selecting only the node which has the gid value you want

$('[gid="hello"]').replaceWith(this);

Hope it helps