How to set a attribute without value or ' ="" ' at end

Question

The problem is... i want <anytag id="blah" class="blahblah" myattrwithoutvalue> BUT looking at console.log($("#blah").html()); i see:

myattrwithoutvalue="" - The third-party plugin dont accept it.

$(selector).attr("attribute") without value or $(selector).attr("attribute",null) dont insert any attribute.

How to solve this?

var table = "";
table += "<table id='table1'>\n";
table += "</table>\n";
$("#place1").html(table);
$("#table1").addClass("myclass");
$("#table1").attr("mynewattr","");
var ptable = $("#place1").html();
console.log(ptable);

Console

<table id="table1" class="myclass" mynewattr="">
</table>

Html

<div id="place1">
</div>

`$("#place1").attr("mynewattr","");` works http://jsfiddle.net/MBwYj/ — Satpal, Jul 03 '14 at 13:00
There is no difference in the DOM between these notations. Which third party plugin does not like this, which attribute name is it actually and what browser are you using? — Bergi, Jul 03 '14 at 13:01
Are you sure that third-party plugin insists on a valueless attribute, or does `mynewattr="mynewattr"` work? — Frédéric Hamidi, Jul 03 '14 at 13:01
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13159180/set-attribute-without-value — Vasilen Donchev, Jul 03 '14 at 13:02
@Satpal No, it doesn't, it gives `mynewattr=""`: http://jsfiddle.net/2m69m/ — Anders Abel, Jul 03 '14 at 13:04
@AndersAbel Interesting, in the Chrome Dev Tools the attribute does not contain `=""` but in the `.html()` output it does... — War10ck, Jul 03 '14 at 13:12
@AndersAbel looks like the `html()` normalizes the innerHTML, here you can see the inline `myattr` is also shown as `myattr=""` http://jsfiddle.net/viphalongpro/2m69m/1/ — King King, Jul 03 '14 at 13:15
Sounds like a bug in the third-party library to me. There shouldn't be any difference between those two notations. — Ian McLaird, Jul 03 '14 at 18:56

Martha Morrigan · Answer 1 · 2014-07-04T11:27:03.153

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Thank you all guys. I did contact with the library owner and pointed the problem. Some hours later He sent an email announcing the new fixed version at github. I apologize.

edited Jul 04 '14 at 11:27

answered Jul 03 '14 at 18:30

Martha Morrigan

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Which one was it? Please link the bugfix at least. – Bergi Jul 04 '14 at 11:57

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