Hi, I want to have a function that generates ID's on the fly for a given jquery object, if it doesn't have one already. These ID's should then be used in future requests. I came up with the code below, but it doesn't work. The ID's are never set. The commented out alert statement below always return undefined. I always pass code like $(this) or $(options.el) as a parameter to substitute 'el'. Initially, the elements do not have explicitly ID set in HTML. Any help would be appreciated, here's the code: getElementId: function(el) { if(undefined == el.attr('id')) { el.attr('id',"anim-"+Math.random().toString().substr(2)); } // alert(el.attr('id')); return el.attr('id'); },