Ooooh... I think I see now. You're saying that once I get a jQuery object, I can filter out children of that object but not parents?
Can you give me a quick example Jörn? ____________________________________ Andy Matthews Senior Coldfusion Developer Office: 877.707.5467 x747 Direct: 615.627.9747 Fax: 615.467.6249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dealerskins.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jörn Zaefferer Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 5:18 PM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] select links not children of li Andy Matthews schrieb: > Then I guess I'm not understanding what a filter is then. The API for > not() says this: > > "Removes the specified Element from the set of matched elements." > > The API for filter() says this: > > "Removes all elements from the set of matched elements that do not > match the specified expression." > > That seems to me like it should work. > > $('a') // select all a elements > $('a').not('li a') // that are not children of an LI tag Then the API is wrong. filter() (and it's inversion, not()), can only handle expressions down the tree, not upwards. In other words: It can only check for attributes or child elements, but has no idea of the context the element is in. -- Jörn Zaefferer http://bassistance.de _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
