uniqid() in javascript/jquery?

Question

what\'s the equivalent of this function in javascript:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php

Basically I need to generate a random ID that looks like:

Answer 1

All answers here (except phpjs) don't generate unique IDs because it's based on random. Random is not unique !

a simple solution :

window.unique_id_counter = 0 ;
var uniqid = function(){
    var id ;
    while(true){
        window.unique_id_counter++ ;
        id = 'uids_myproject_' + window.unique_id_counter ;
        if(!document.getElementById(id)){
            /*you can remove the loop and getElementById check if you 
              are sure that noone use your prefix and ids with this 
              prefix are only generated with this function.*/
            return id ;
        }
    }
}

It's easy to add dynamic prefix if it's needed. Just change unique_id_counter into an array storing counters for each prefixes.