Thanks a lot. I didn't know $("name") means looking for element by tag
name.
Guoliang
On Jun 9, 1:22 pm, "Matt Stith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you select using something like $("stuff"), jquery looks for a <stuff>
> tag, which oviously doesnt exist. To search by class, you use $(".stuff"),
> and to search by ID you use $("#stuff").
>
> In your case, you wanted to search for a select by name, so you would do
> $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'stuff']")
>
> Or, like you just did, using IDs makes the code alot quicker.
>
> On 6/9/07, Guoliang Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thank you for your help. But your code doesn't work here. I changed to
> > use id and suddenly everything worked. Here is the new code
>
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://
> >www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> > <html debug="true">
> > <head>
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
> > <title>Test Page</title>
> > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/
> > jsgameviewer/js/jquery.js"></script>
> > <script language="JavaScript">
> > function openGame(){
> > var option = $("#games [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
> > alert(option.text());
> > }
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > Select one:
> > <select id="games">
> > <option selected="true">games/test1.sgf</option>
> > <option>games/test2.sgf</option>
> > <option>games/test4.sgf</option>
> > </select>
>
> > <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
> > openGame();
> > $("#games").change(openGame);
> > </script>
> > </body>
> > </html>
