jQuery .hasClass() method fails for SVG elements

Question

I have a set of SVG elements with the classes node and link. My program should detect whether an element has the node class or the l

Answer 1

This is not the fastest option ever, but it is a possible solution. Instead of using jQuery's hasClass you could instead obtain the class attribute as a string and use indexOf to search through it. There are probably use cases where this will fail, so I wouldn't recommend this except for super simple projects.

Working example:

var s = $(this).attr('class');
if( s.indexOf('node')!==-1 ){
    // do something
}

Remember: indexOf returns -1 when it can't find anything, not 0. 0 is returned when the substring starts at index 0.