HTML METHODS - attr()

The attr() method is used to get and set the attribute of an HTML element.

attr() as Getter method

Example :

<html>
  	<head>
    	<title> My First Programme </title>
    	
    	<script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
  	</head>

  	<body>
    	<h1> JQuery </h1>
    	
    	Enter the value : <input type = "text"/>
        
        <br/><br/>
        
        <button> Click it </button> 
	  
      	<script>
      
			$('button').click( function() { 
            	alert("The input element is of type : " + $("input").attr("type"));
            });
            
      	</script>      
  	</body>
</html>

Output :

So, if we look at the above code, we have an <input> element that has an attribute i.e. "type = 'text'".

<input type = "text"/>

And we have a <button> element,

<button> Click it </button>

And on button click, the JQuery statement gets triggered,

$('button').click( function() {
	alert("The input element is of type : " + $("input").attr("type"));
});

And an alert is generated,

alert("The input element is of type : " + $("input").attr("type"));

Now, if we see the output (i.e. The alert),

You get the type of the <input> element(i.e. text).

This is because the attr("type") method is used to get the attribute i.e. type of the <input> element.

attr() as Setter method

Example :

<html>
  	<head>
    	<title> My First Programme </title>
    	
    	<script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
  	</head>

  	<body>
    	<h1> JQuery </h1>
    	
    	<button> Click to increase the height of the below image </button> <br/><br/>
		<img src="airplane.jpg" alt="Airplane" width="150" height="103">
	  
      	<script>
      
			$('button').click( function() { 
            	$('img').attr("height", "200");
            });
            
      	</script>      
  	</body>
</html>

Output :

So, if we look at the above code, we have a <button> element,

<button> Click to increase the height of the below image </button>

And we have an <input> element that has an attribute i.e. "type = 'text'".

<input type = "text"/>

And on button click, the JQuery statement gets triggered,

$('button').click( function() {
	$('img').attr("height", "200");
});

And locates the <img> element and increases the height of the <img> element to 200.

$('img').attr("height", "200");

This is because the attr("height", "200") method is used to set/change the attribute i.e. height of the <input> element.

Now, what if you want to change, both height and width of the <img> element?

Let us see in the below example.

Example :

<html>
  	<head>
    	<title> My First Programme </title>
    	
    	<script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
  	</head>

  	<body>
    	<h1> JQuery </h1>
    	
    	<button> Click to increase the height and width of the below image </button> <br/><br/>
		<img src="airplane.jpg" alt="Airplane" width="150" height="103">
	  
      	<script>
      
			$('button').click( function() { 
            	$('img').attr({height: "200", width: "300"});
            });
            
      	</script>      
  	</body>
</html>

Output :

So, we have modified the above example to modify the height and width.

And all we have done is, modified the attr() method of the JQuery element.

$('img').attr({height: "200", width: "300"});

So, inside the attr() method, we have used the new values of height and width enclosed within braces (i.e. {}).

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