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JavaScript

Posted by Ashish Mehra
Ashish Mehra
Courses Plus Student 31 Points

how to change data-icon value dynamically ?

I have this code of line in my HTML and i want to change it's attr value how i can insert value to do same...

<a href="#" data-icon="&#xea3c;"></a>
 $(this).attr("data-icon",&#xea3c; ); //here i want to insert value dynamically

1 Answer

Matt F.
Matt F.
9,518 Points
Matt F.
Matt F.
9,518 Points

$('a').attr("data-icon", '' );

or

$('a').data("icon", '' );

I am not sure what you are looking to use this for, but you needed to target the anchor element (replace 'this' with 'a'), as well as wrap the second argument to attr/data a string.