jQuery document.createElement equivalent? I'm refactoring some old JavaScript code and there's a lot of DOM manipulation going on. var d = document; var odv = d.createElement("div"); odv.style.display = "none"; this.OuterDiv = odv; var t = d.createElement("table"); t.cellSpacing = 0; t.className = "text"; odv.appendChild(t); I would like to know if there is a better way to do this using jQuery. I've been experimenting with: var odv = $.create("div"); $.append(odv); // And many more But I'm not sure if this is any better. Answer: here's your example

.prop() vs .attr() So jQuery 1.6 has the new function prop(). $(selector).click(function(){ //instead of: this.getAttribute('style'); //do i use: $(this).prop('style'); //or: $(this).attr('style'); }) or in this case do they do the same thing? And if I do have to switch to using prop(), all the old attr() calls will break if i switch to 1.6? UPDATE selector = '#id' $(selector).click(function() { //instead of: var getAtt = this.getAttribute('style'); //do i use: var thisProp = $(this).prop('style'); //or: var thisAttr = $(this).attr('style'); console.log(getAtt, thisProp, thisAttr); }); <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <div id='id' style="color: red;background: orange;">test</div> (see also

How to check whether a checkbox is checked in jQuery? I need to check the checked property of a checkbox and perform an action based on the checked property using jQuery. For example, if the age checkbox is checked, then I need to show a textbox to enter age, else hide the textbox. But the following code returns false by default: if($('#isAgeSelected').attr('checked')) { $("#txtAge").show(); } else { $("#txtAge").hide(); } How do I successfully query the checked property? Answer: This worked for me: $get("isAgeSelected ").checked == true Where isAgeSelected is the id