Get class name using jQuery

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X10nD picture X10nD · Mar 8, 2010 · Viewed 1.4M times · Source

I want to get the class name using jQuery

And if it has an id 

<div class="myclass"></div>

Answer

Boldewyn picture Boldewyn · Mar 8, 2010

After getting the element as jQuery object via other means than its class, then

var className = $('#sidebar div:eq(14)').attr('class');

should do the trick. For the ID use .attr('id').

If you are inside an event handler or other jQuery method, where the element is the pure DOM node without wrapper, you can use:

this.className // for classes, and
this.id // for IDs

Both are standard DOM methods and well supported in all browsers.

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