Question

This question is related to this post but I don’t see how I can ask another question in the same question.

I need to know what $(this) this is. If I alert $(this) I get [object Object]. In other words when I alert($(this)) I need for the outcome to be a specific <li> tag so that I can do an IF ELSE statement when I roll off a specific link.

Thanks.
James

Answer 1

In a handler, this is the DOM element. So to get the tag, just use the tagName property. Likewise, you can get other properties like ID with this.id.

alert( this.tagName );
alert( this.id );

Or if you needed to test against a specific selector (I wasn’t sure from your question), you can use jQuery’s .is().

if( $(this).is('.someClass') {...

(Actually, in that simple case of testing for a class, you’d probably use .hasClass() instead.)

if( $(this).hasClass('someClass') {...

There may be more efficient ways. Depends on what you actually need to test for.

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EDIT: From your comment, you want to check if a child <a> element has the class rpSelected.

Try this:

if( $(this).children('a.rpSelected').length == 0 ) {
       // remove the class