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jQuery: Select element with highest value in attribute
Posted on 2016-09-05
Using jQuery, how can I change the background color of the element with the highest value for the attribute data-x?
In this example, only "Eleven" should be red.
In this example, only "Eleven" should be red.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Demo</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('div').filter(function( index ) {return index;}).css( "background-color", "red" );
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-x="4">Four</div>
<div data-x="11">Eleven</div>
<div data-x="2">Two</div>
<div data-x="3">Three</div>
<div data-x="5">Five</div>
<div data-x="9">Nine</div>
</body>
</html>
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Any particular reason you are still using a transitional DOCTYPE?
You could do something like this
CSS
You could do something like this
CSS
.maxval {
background: green;
}
<div data-x="4">Four</div>
<div data-x="11">Eleven</div>
<div data-x="2">Two</div>
<div data-x="3">Three</div>
<div data-x="5">Five</div>
<div data-x="9">Nine</div>
$(function() {
var max = 0, current = false;
$('div[data-x]').each(function() {
var value = $(this).data('x');
if (value > max) {
current = $(this);
max = value;
}
});
current.addClass('maxval');
});
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