Maybe you want something like:
$thisSubmit = $('#myinput').parents('form').find('[EMAIL PROTECTED]"submit"]'); --Erik On 7/18/07, jarrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Erik Beeson wrote: > > >> $this = $("#myinput"); >> $thisForm = $("form",$this.parent()) > > I didn't really read the OP, but I think that's the same as: > > $thisForm = $('#myinput').parent().find('form'); > > Or at that point, might as well do: > > $thisSubmit = $('#myinput').siblings('[EMAIL PROTECTED]"submit"]'); > > --Erik > > Very interesting. Thanks a lot for the info. Maybe what I want is parents() instead of parent() because the form is not the immediate parent of the inputs, which are inside of table cells. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Better-way-to-select-parent-form--tf4107139s15494.html#a11680017 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.