How to change an element s title attribute using jQuery

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I have an form input element and want to change its title attribute   This has to be easy as pie  but for some reason I cannot find how to do this   How is this done  and where and how should I be searching on how to do this

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I beleive      myElement   attr  title    new title value     or       myElement   prop  title    new title value     should do the trick     I think you can find all the core functions in the jQuery Docs  although I hate the formatting

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jqueryTitle       title   New Title        for first title   jqueryTitle  destroy      https   github com ertaserdi jQuery-Title

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As an addition to  C    answer  make sure the title of the tooltip has  not already been set manually in the HTML element  In my case  the span class for the tooltip already had a fixed tittle text  because of this my JQuery function     data-toggle  tooltip     prop  title    your new title    did not work    When I removed the title attribute in the HTML span class  the jQuery was working    So     lt span class  showTooltip  data-target   showTooltip  data-id  showTooltip  gt         lt span id  MyTooltip  class  fas fa-info-circle  data-toggle  tooltip  data-placement  top  title  this is my pre-set title text  gt  lt  span gt   lt  span gt    Should becode    lt span class  showTooltip  data-target   showTooltip  data-id  showTooltip  gt         lt span id  MyTooltip  class  fas fa-info-circle  data-toggle  tooltip  data-placement  top  gt  lt  span gt   lt  span gt

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In jquery ui modal dialogs you need to use this construct        my dialog    dialog   option    title    my new title

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Another option  if you prefer  would be to get the DOM element from the jQuery object and use standard DOM accessors on it       myElement   0  title    new title value     The  jQuery way   as mentioned by others  is to use the attr   method   See the API documentation for attr   here

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If you are creating a div and trying to add a title to it   Try  var myDiv  document createElement  div    myDiv setAttribute  title   mytitle

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Before we write any code  let s discuss the difference between attributes and properties  Attributes are the settings you apply to elements in your HTML markup  the browser then parses the markup and creates DOM objects of various types that contain properties initialized with the values of the attributes  On DOM objects  such as a simple HTMLElement  you almost always want to be working with its properties  not its attributes collection    The current best practice is to avoid working with attributes unless they are custom or there is no equivalent property to supplement it  Since title does indeed exist as a read write property on many HTMLElements  we should take advantage of it    You can read more about the difference between attributes and properties here or here   With this in mind  let s manipulate that title     Get or Set an element s title property without jQuery  Since title is a public property  you can set it on any DOM element that supports it with plain JavaScript   document getElementById  yourElementId   title    your new title     Retrieval is almost identical  nothing special here   var elementTitle   document getElementById  yourElementId   title    This will be the fastest way of changing the title if you re an optimization nut  but since you wanted jQuery involved   Get or Set an element s title property with jQuery  v1 6    jQuery introduced a new method in v1 6 to get and set properties  To set the title property on an element  use       yourElementId   prop  title    your new title      If you d like to retrieve the title  omit the second parameter and capture the return value   var elementTitle       yourElementId   prop  title      Check out the prop   API documentation for jQuery   If you really don t want to use properties  or you re using a version of jQuery prior to v1 6  then you should read on   Get or Set an element s title attribute with jQuery  versions  lt 1 6   You can change the title attribute with the following code       yourElementId   attr  title    your new title      Or retrieve it with   var elementTitle       yourElementId   attr  title      Check out the attr   API documentation for jQuery

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