Ah, I think I understand what you're getting at now. Alas, I don't
know of anything that would work faster than the $('td:nth-child(n)')
selector expression. I'll try to give it some more thought, though,
and if I have any ideas, I'll post them. Sorry I couldn't be of more
help.
--Karl
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On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Daemach wrote:
Thanks Karl -
That suggestion works for applying an attribute to an entire column
of a
table, but I need to apply a custom selector which means looping
over the
rows. My selector is using a regex, and I need to compare a matched
subexpression so if the regex is operating on unexepected values it
bombs.
Limiting it to one column would solve that problem.
Karl Swedberg-2 wrote:
Dave Methvin answered this question back in October and then again in
February:
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-highlight-table-column-on-hover-
p7074977.html
Hope that helps.
--Karl
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On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Daemach wrote:
So on the selector question, is there any jQuery selector that
would enable
me to limit the "search" to a single table column?
Daemach wrote:
In my ongoing quest to master jQuery I had an itch to write a table
filtering mechanism. I'm going for speed and elegance here so I
want this
to work fast enough to bind to a keyup event without bogging down
even on
long tables. Using DOM coding if I wanted to search the 3rd
column only I
would loop over oTable.rows[i].cells[2] to find the values.
jQuery's
selectors are pretty generalized, so I'm wondering if there is a
jQuery
selector that is equally efficient.
$("td:nth-child(3)", "#mytbody#") perhaps? Some kind of xpath
expression?
If I had a text field in the table header row, what would be the
easiest
way to figure out what column it was in so I could pass that to the
selector?
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