uniqid() in javascript/jquery?

Question

what's the equivalent of this function in javascript:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php

Basically I need to generate a random ID that looks like: a4245f54345 and starts with a alphabetic character (so I can use it as a CSS id)

Answer 1

The real question is, do you need the UUID to be RFC 4122 compliant? Your question seems to suggest you don't, so it wouldn't be too hard to create a function based simply on Math.random() to generate IDs like that. Plus it will be a lot faster than the phpJS implementation.