$("#someDiv").attr("scrollHeight") not working in jquery-1.6.1

Question

$("#someDiv").attr("scrollHeight") works in jquery 1.3.2 for all browsers. But on updating to jquery 1.6.1, it only works in IE9. Firefox 4.0.1, Google Chrome 11 and Safari 5 all return undefined. $("#someDiv").get(0).scrollHeight however still works for all browsers.

Anybody knows what is going on?, is attr("scrollHeight") broken in the newest jquery (i.e version 1.6.1)?

Answer 1

jQuery 1.6 introduced .prop and changed the meaning of .attr.

Read all about it.

_{(Always worth checking the documentation first; the page for .attr talks about this too.)}