How can I get the ID of an element using jQuery?

Question

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Answer 1

Well, seems there has not been a solution and would like to propose my own solution that is an expansion of the JQuery prototype's. I put this in a Helper file that is loaded after the JQuery library, hence the check for window.jQuery

if (window.jQuery) {
    $.prototype.id = function () {
        if (this.length > 1) {
            var val = [];
            this.each(function (idx, el) {
                val.push($(el).id());
            });
            return val;
        } else {
            return this.attr('id');
        }
    }
}

It may not be perfect but it is a start to maybe getting inclusion into the JQuery library.

Returns either a single string value or an Array of string values. The Array of string values, is for the event an multi-element selector was used.