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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu Using parent(), hasClass() and prop()

Kamila Mielczarek
Kamila Mielczarek
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Posted by Kamila Mielczarek
Kamila Mielczarek
3,294 Points

What's the difference between "prop" used here and "attr"?

I kinda jumped ahead and completed this beforehand (Googled for "select - preselected") and found <option selected>. Assuming it would accept true or false, I made this:

if ( anchor.parent().hasClass("selected") ) { option.attr("selected", true); }

And it works all right. What's the difference between "prop" and "attr" in this case?

By the way I found this case (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5874652/prop-vs-attr) and kind of see the difference between those as in prop being able to return objects etc.