Thanks chaps, great answers. Is :gt(n) a jQuery or CSS3 pseudo selector?
PS Yehuda - The reason is that I'm not striping a table! Good answer nontheless!
On 3/1/07, Yehuda Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why do you want to ignore the first two items? A better solution might be to
> use <thead> to store header info outside the table and then do $("table
> tbody tr:nth-child(odd)")
>
> -- Yehuda
>
>
> On 2/28/07, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> >
> > jQuery doesn't support the ":nth-child(an + b)", only ":nth-child(n)"
> >
> >
> > To select every odd item except the first two items, try this instead:
> >
> >
> > $('#search-results div:nth-child("odd"):gt(0)')
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --Karl
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 28, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Dan Eastwell wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to select every odd item in a list, but not the first two
> items.
> >
> >
> > I've tried using the nth-child selector, which is fine at picking out
> > the nth-child, but I can't get the 2n+2 child to be selected:
> >
> >
> > stripes("#search-results div:odd"); // is ok
> > stripes("#search-results div:nth-child(2)"); // works
> >
> >
> > but
> >
> >
> > stripes("#search-results div:nth-child(2n+2)"); // doesn't.
> >
> >
> > Am I missing something about the CSS3 selector syntax?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> >
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