$(this).attr(“id”) not working

Question

as the title says, I keep getting \"undefined\" when I try to get the id attribute of an element, basically what I want to do is replace an element with an input box when th

Answer 1

your using this in a function, when you should be using the parameter.

You only use $(this) in callbacks... from selections like

$('a').click(function() {
   alert($(this).href);
})

In closing, the proper way (using your code example) would be to do this

obj.attr('id');