The problem with parents() in the example given is that if your page
structure is more complex, and has nested tables for example, then
parents() will return all parent tables. Likewise if there are tr's
preceding the tr in your example. Here's a couple ways to get the text
you're asking for:
$('#knowndiv').closest('tr').find('td:first').text();
$('#knowndiv').parent().prevAll(':last').text();
HTH :)
On Jun 3, 6:33 am, jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mauricio, your code basically works fine on a simple test page. But
> there is something about my set-up that makes the bit about
> ".parents('table')" fail. My page still has the same exact element
> structure with 2 differences; there are 52 "tr"s in the table; also,
> all the elements (tables, trs, tds, divs...what have you,) are all
> full of styles, attributes, and onclick events to a fairly large
> extent.
>
> Other variations and combination of jQuery functions fail as well in
> getting the parent of this div in my page.
>
> I guess I'll just keep on truckin'.
> jake
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva
>
> <css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('table').find('td:first').text();
> > alert(myText);
>
> > Maurício
>
> > -----Mensagem Original-----
> > De: con-man-jake
> > Para: jQuery (English)
> > Enviada em: terça-feira, 2 de junho de 2009 16:38
> > Assunto: [jQuery] text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get it
>
> > Still a newbie.
> > I have this:
>
> > <table>
> > <tr>
>
> > <td>
> > text I want to get
> > </td>
>
> > <td>
> > </td>
>
> > <td>
> > <div id="knowndiv"></div>
> > </td>
>
> > <tr>
> > </table>
>
> > If I have the div with id of "knowndiv" as an object (call it "obj"),
> > How do I get the text inside the first <td>?
