I'm using Raphael for drawing some elements on a website. The elements include rectangle, line (path). I have given an id to the path element and trying to access it in the onclick event of that line. but when I do an alert of the id, nothing is visible. Following is the code snippet
function createLine()
{
var t = paper.path("M" + xLink + " " + yLink +"L" + linkWidth + " " + linkHeight);
t.attr('stroke-width','3');
t.attr('id','Hello');
t.node.onclick = processPathOnClick;
}
function processPathOnClick()
{
alert($(this).attr("id"));
}
Can anyone please tell me what is the problem with the above code. Any pointer will be helpful.
Thanks
Are you sure you don't want to write $(t.node).attr('id','Hello');
instead?
Update: someone just downvoted this answer. And I truly feel obligated to point out this way of setting the id isn't particularly good. You would be better off using:
t.node.id = 'Hello';
I wish there was a way to credit Juan Mendes, other than upvoting his comment to this answer.
Try this:
function createLine() {
var t = paper.path("M" + xLink + " " + yLink +"L" + linkWidth + " " + linkHeight);
t.attr('stroke-width','3');
t.id = 'Hello';
t.node.onclick = processPathOnClick;
}
function processPathOnClick() {
alert($(this).id);
alert(this.id); // This should work too...
}
Basically you are creating a new property called "id" on your Raphael line instance variable "t". It's kind of hacking, in my opinion, but it does the trick just fine.
Try setting the handler using jquery
function createLine()
{
var t = paper.path("M" + xLink + " " + yLink +"L" + linkWidth + " " + linkHeight);
t.attr('stroke-width','3');
t.attr('id','Hello');
$(t.node).click(processPathOnClick);
}
function processPathOnClick()
{
alert($(this).attr("id"));
}