I want to use javascript to insert an attribute to an element

Question

Any ideas how I would go about writing a javascript method to insert an attribute to a tag

eg. I have

<input id='in1' value='Submit' type='submit'/>

and I want to insert an attribute name

<input id='in1' name='submit_content' value='Submit' type='submit'/>

Thanks

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-02 09:19:13Z

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Try this:

document.getElementById("in1").setAttribute("name", "submit_content");

answered Jul 2, 2009 at 9:19

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2 Comments

It’s actually setAttribute instead of addAttribute. I fixed that.

This one is not working.. what's the solution to this..?? setAttribute("event.stopPropagation()")

kim3er · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-02 09:21:07Z

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document.getElementById("in1").setAttribute("name", "submit_content");

or using jQuery:

$("#in1").attr("name", "submit_content");

answered Jul 2, 2009 at 9:21

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