Useful Attribute Methods in JQuery:

Following table lists down few useful methods which you can use to manipulate attributes and properties:

Methods	Description
attr( properties )	Set a key/value object as properties to all matched elements.
attr( key, fn )	Set a single property to a computed value, on all matched elements.
removeAttr( name )	Remove an attribute from each of the matched elements.
hasClass( class )	Returns true if the specified class is present on at least one of the set of matched elements.
removeClass( class )	Removes all or the specified class(es) from the set of matched elements.
toggleClass( class )	Adds the specified class if it is not present, removes the specified class if it is present.
html( )	Get the html contents (innerHTML) of the first matched element.
html( val )	Set the html contents of every matched element.
text( )	Get the combined text contents of all matched elements.
text( val )	Set the text contents of all matched elements.
val( )	Get the input value of the first matched element.
val( val )	Set the value attribute of every matched element if it is called on <input> but if it is called on <select> with the passed <option> value then passed option would be selected, if it is called on check box or radio box then all the matching check box and radiobox would be checked.

Similar to above syntax and examples, following examples would give you understanding on using various attribute methods in different situation:

• $("#myID").attr("custom") : This would return value of attribute custom for the first element matching with ID myID.
• $("img").attr("alt", "Sample Image"): This sets the alt attribute of all the images to a new value "Sample Image".
• $("input").attr({ value: "", title: "Please enter a value" }); : Sets the value of all <input> elements to the empty string, as well as sets the title to the string Please enter a value.
• $("a[href^=http://]").attr("target","_blank"): Selects all links with an href attribute starting with http:// and set its target attribute to _blank
• $("a").removeAttr("target") : This would remove target attribute of all the links.
• $("form").submit(function() {$(":submit",this).attr("disabled", "disabled");}); : This would modify the disabled attribute to the value "disabled" while clicking Submit button.
• $("p:last").hasClass("selected"): This return true if last <p> tag has associated classselected.
• $("p").text(): Returns string that contains the combined text contents of all matched <p> elements.
• $("p").text("<i>Hello World</i>"): This would set "<I>Hello World</I>" as text content of the matching <p> elements
• $("p").html() : This returns the HTML content of the all matching paragraphs.
• $("div").html("Hello World") : This would set the HTML content of all matching <div> to Hello World.
• $("input:checkbox:checked").val() : Get the first value from a checked checkbox
• $("input:radio[name=bar]:checked").val(): Get the first value from a set of radio buttons
• $("button").val("Hello") : Sets the value attribute of every matched element <button>.
• $("input").val("on") : This would check all the radio or check box button whose value is "on".
• $("select").val("Orange") : This would select Orange option in a dropdown box with options Orange, Mango and Banana.
• $("select").val("Orange", "Mango") : This would select Orange and Mango options in a dropdown box with options Orange, Mango and Banana.