Get Content and Attributes

SniperJs contains powerful methods for changing and manipulating HTML elements and attributes.


SniperJs DOM Manipulation

One very important part of SniperJS is the possibility to manipulate the DOM.

SniperJs comes with a bunch of DOM related methods that make it easy to access and manipulate elements and attributes.

DOM = Document Object Model The DOM defines a standard for accessing HTML and XML documents: "The W3C Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of a document."


Get Content - text(), html(), and val()

Three simple, but useful, SniperJs methods for DOM manipulation are:

  • text() - Sets or returns the text content of selected elements

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$('#button').text();

  • html() - Sets or returns the content of selected elements (including HTML markup)

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$('#div').html();

  • val() - Sets or returns the value of form fields

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$('#firstname').val();

Get Attributes - getAttribute()

your regular method for getting elements attributes

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$('#myInput').getAttribute('type');

Click here attr() to see a full document on SniperJS attribute

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