I'm having some trouble pulling attributes from an event target element.
I am using php to access a mysql database. From the query I pull out some image file names and their respective id's. I then display these images in a table with the following line:
print '<td><img id="img_' . $row['paint_id'] . '" class="thumb_target" src="img/paint/thumb/' . $row['paint_thumb'] .'"></td>';
As you can see, this line gives each image the id 'img_xx' where xx is the images numeric id in the sql database. I also give each image the class 'thumb_target'. In document ready I set a .click event for the thumb_target elements. This makes an AJAX call which should pass the img_xx id as data. I got this to work in chrome using
data: 'imgID=' + event.target.id
However, several hours later I decided to check something else in firefox and found that it doesn't work for all browsers. Using jQuery's method:
var id = $(this).attr('id');
I can't get id to be anything but undefined. Am I targeting a different element than the element I think I am?
Here's the pertinent javascript:
function runClick() {
var id = $(this).attr('id');
alert(id);
$.ajax({
url: 'overlay.php',
//~ data: 'imgID=' + event.target.id,
//~ data: ({ imgID: id }),
data: 'imgID=' + id,
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
processJSON(data);
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
alert("Failed to perform AJAX call! textStatus: (" + textStatus +
") and errorThrown: (" + errorThrown + ")");
}
});
}
$(document).ready( function() {
$('.thumb_target').click( function() {
runClick();
});
$('#overlay').hide();
});
Here's a link to the test page: http://www.carlthomasedwards.com/painting2.php