Html/[removed] Add Attribute to an HTML Control

Question

Need: Find a way to add a valid tag/attribute/property to a normal html control.

What I have is some javascript/jquery adding a click event to a link that will show

Answer 1

If you're using JQuery, just get and set the attributes with .attr().

Get: this.attr("textToShow")

Set: this.attr("textToShow", value)