Thanks Gustavo
I put in a kludge for this just to move on with the project. But I
will try your suggestion in the near future and let you know.
jake
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Gustavo Salomé <gustavon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
> $("#knowndiv').parent('td').prev().prev().html();
>
> Think thats gonna work out.
>
> 2009/6/3 jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com>
>>
>> Mauricio and Ricardo,
>> I applied all the suggestions, parent(), parents() and all the other
>> functions, but still to no avail. The weird thing is that when I
>> strip out all the styles, attributes and events from the elements and
>> reduce the number of "tr"s to less than 10 but keep the structure
>> intact, it works!
>> At any rate, thanks to all. Too much effort has gone fruitless at
>> this point. I will have to resort to a different solution altogether.
>> jake
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva
>> <css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, BigAB <adamlbarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > have you tried
>> >> > var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('tr').find('td:first').text();
>> >> > alert(myText);
>> >>
>> >> > The TR is really the parent of the TDs, not the table.
>> >
>> > For information only.
>> > I've used parents() not parent().
>> > parents() means ancestor and table is ancestor of TDs
>> >
>> > See: http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing
>> > Maurício
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > -----Mensagem Original-----
>> > De: Ricardo
>> > Para: jQuery (English)
>> > Enviada em: quarta-feira, 3 de junho de 2009 15:15
>> > Assunto: [jQuery] Re: text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get
>> > it
>> >
>> > There is no reason why you shouldn't get this working with one of the
>> > examples provided. For the nesting issue, filter with :first:
>> >
>> > $('#knowndiv').parents('tr:first').children('td:first').text();
>> >
>> > parents(xx:first) is similar to closest(xx), only the latter will also
>> > try to match the element itself.
>> >
>> > On Jun 3, 1:01 pm, jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Yes, that is the first thing I did, to no avail. I think all I am
>> >> left with just trudging through this with pure javascript.
>> >> jake
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, BigAB <adamlbarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > have you tried
>> >> > var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('tr').find('td:first').text();
>> >> > alert(myText);
>> >>
>> >> > The TR is really the parent of the TDs, not the table.
>> >>
>> >> > On Jun 3, 7:33 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
>> > ...
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> Gustavo Salome Silva
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