GUID SETTER

GUID SETTER

by Andrew Pougher

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css">
<div class="well" id="guid"></div>

JavaScript

function s4() {
  return Math.floor((1 + Math.random()) * 0x10000)
             .toString(16)
             .substring(1);
};

function guid() {
  return s4() + s4() + '-' + s4() + '-' + s4() + '-' +
         s4() + '-' + s4() + s4() + s4();
}

$('#guid').html(guid());


$.guid= 0;

// use it directly when needed
$('<br><a href="' + guid() + '" id="' + guid() + '">Click to Save this unique ID</a>').appendTo('#guid');