$('DIV#myId').attr('for') - im can't read value of "for" attribute, if i'm rename this attribute, all is work

[leadaxe]

bug demo example: <script type="text/javascript" src="​http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <div for="test" id="myId"></div> <div fortest="test" id="myId2"></div> <script>$(function(){

alert('$("#myId").attr("for") is "'+$("#myId").attr("for")+'"'); alert('$("#myId2").attr("fortest") is "'+$("#myId2").attr("fortest")+'"');

});</script>

[miketaylr]

divs don't have for attributes--only labels: ​http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-for

[leadaxe]

ok, but it is work for any different undeclared attributes.

[dmethvin]

This is because the "for" property when used in HTML is actually "htmlFor", for example in the label element. That would be true of any of the special cases in jQuery.props I suspect. XML documents don't get this special treatment so "for" would be "for" there. I'm not sure whether this is worth fixing, or just documenting.

[SlexAxton]

+1 for documenting.

Closing the ticket as it is not a bug, but cc'ing people who <3 documentation.