Just to clarify: .attr("height") no longer exists.
--John
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> I'm curious about what the rationale was for having .attr('height') return
> the same thing as .css('height'). Was it just in case people use the wrong
> method?
> I could see the usefulness of having .attr('height') return the actual
> attribute value in cases where, for example, I needed to see whether the
> current height of an element is less than or greater than the height set by
> the attribute.
>
> --Karl
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:29 AM, John Resig wrote:
>
> I would be much more convinced if there were examples where:
> 1) People were legitimately using inline-specified height/width and in
> a way that was different from specifying the value in pixels and in
> way that was superior to using CSS.
> 2) The returned result from .height() (not .attr('height'), since
> that's been temporarily disabled) was somehow different from the
> expected value.
>
> For the moment ignore XML documents, I think it probably makes sense
> to disable attrFn on XML documents.
>
> --John
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:45 AM, alexander farkas
> <a.farkas...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The way how jQuery does mixing properties with attributes is a very
>
> clever thing. One simple API for multiple different things is a very
>
> nice thing, but has its constraints.
>
> An example:
>
> jQuery returns the value-property on form-elements, instead of the
>
> value-attribute. This is a really good thing, because
>
> a) a lot of novice developers don´t know about the difference and are
>
> expecting this behavior
>
> b) more advanced developers know the difference, but want in general
>
> to know the value-property of a form element
>
> With other words the developer gets what he/she wants/expects here.
>
> But if jQuery starts to make .attr('height') equal to .height(), the
>
> behavior becomes very unexpected. Everybody knows that the height-
>
> attribute can be simply "overridden" by using css. This is why a
>
> developer would use height to get the height-dimension of an element
>
> and if a developer wants to know what the height-attribute, he would
>
> call attr('height').
>
> If you change your API to this behavior you will
>
> a) break existing code
>
> a) do unexpected things
>
> b) you don´t have a jQuery-method, wich returns the height-/width-
>
> attribute anymore
>
> To be clear:
>
> I think, you did a great job mixing properties and attributes and if
>
> you know start to take this a step further, I am also on your side,
>
> but you have to make wisley decissions (and small steps) here.
>
> If you can solve the discrepancy in event-binding with attr, Robert is
>
> mentioing, it could be a nice feature, but please don´t do this with
>
> height/width!
>
> On 17 Dez., 11:28, Már Örlygsson <mar.orlygs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Never ever, would I have guessed that .attr('height') would report a
>
> value on elements that don't have an explicit height `attr`ibute.
>
> Somehow I have the feeling that it would be useful for developers to
>
> be able to access plain old element attributes - in a cross-browser
>
> way - without any overt aliasing/magic.
>
> --
>
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