writeAttribute() example

By Iain Cuthbertson

March 17, 2010

The documentation on http://prototypejs.org/api/element/writeAttribute is a wee bit scarce. So here’s a quick one on usage.

To add an attribute:

$('foo').writeAttribute('title', 'bar');

To remove an attribute:

$('foo').writeAttribute('title', null);

To enable all disabled form elements (in a form with the id ‘container’):

$('container').select('[disabled="disabled"]').each(function(e) {
  $(e).writeAttribute('disabled', null);
});