jquery create a unique id

javascript, jquery

Solution

Just use a counter:

var section = 1;
$(function() {
  $("a.menuitem").click(function() {
    ...
    $("<div></div>").attr("id", "section" + section++).appendTo("#content_pane");
    ...
    return false;
  });
});

Also, I'd suggest creating the element as per above.

Problem

``` $(document).ready(function() { $('a.menuitem').click(function() { var arr = 0; var link = $( this ), url = link.attr( "href" ); var newDiv = $( document.createElement( 'div' ) ) $( "#content_pane" ).append( newDiv ); newDiv.load( url ); return false; }); }); ``` As you can see I am creating a `div` and adding some content to it, how would I give each `div` that is created a unique id, something like section1, section2, section3, etc?

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