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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu Perform: Part 1

Posted by Roland Couture
Roland Couture
4,717 Points

Could you treat 'value' as just another attribute?

...for example by using .attr to access it by name ('value') rather than .val? I've always thought of it as such (as an attribute).

1 Answer

I Hou Tong
I Hou Tong
6,936 Points
I Hou Tong
I Hou Tong
6,936 Points

Yes you can but there shouldn't be any reason to do so. Using .val, you'll end up with shorter and cleaner code.

Here's an example showing that it works with .attr

https://jsfiddle.net/ywj447wu/