Haha, you almost had me frightened there ("does he know something that
I don't?").But yeah, the Learning jQuery Book is definitely a different brand of baby. --John On 8/15/07, Benjamin Sterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, don't I look like a dumbass :) I apparently was referring to this > post that I guess I never actually read: > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/f1706b9f5c1da82b/fdf9ac5f7e90d1eb?lnk=gst&q=resig&rnum=41#fdf9ac5f7e90d1eb > > I need sleep... > > > On 8/16/07, Karl Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm guessing he's getting you confused with Dries, of Drupal fame. :) > > > > Karl Rudd > > > > On 8/16/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I have a kid? I sure hope not! :-) > > > > > > --John > > > > > > On 8/15/07, Benjamin Sterling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I had my kid back in January and I am just recently getting time > to work > > > > on my side projects. So where, after only, what, a month or so are > you > > > > getting the time and energy to patch things so quickly? > > > > > > > > I will try to grab that version tonight, if not, sometime tomorrow. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/15/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I was feeling feisty. Fixed in SVN rev 2728. Check a copy out of SVN > > > > > to give it a try (but the test case passes). > > > > > > > > > > --John > > > > > > > > > > On 8/15/07, Benjamin Sterling < > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > @Stephan: That is actually the first site I went to (and go to > often) > > > > when > > > > > > I started running into the problem figure I was not following > standards. > > > > > > And I tried the prepend and prependTo and neither worked, but > prepend > > > > > > errored out where prependTo did not. > > > > > > > > > > > > @John: Will do, I want to experiment on a few more things to see > if I > > > > can > > > > > > find a work around, either way I will post it sometime tonight. > > > > > > > > > > > > @Erik: Are you suggesting we should change "write less. do more" > to > > > > "doing > > > > > > shady trickery so you don't have to." :) > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help guys. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/15/07, Erik Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > "jQuery: doing shady trickery so you don't have to." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --Erik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/15/07, John Resig < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That being said, we have to do a lot of shady trickery to make > > > > > > > > table-related things work properly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > @Benjamin: You should file a bug on this: > > > > > > > > http://dev.jquery.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --John > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8/15/07, Stephan Beal < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 16, 3:56 am, "Benjamin Sterling" > > > > > > > > > < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > > > I am trying to build a table dynamically, but jQuery keep > > > > erroring > > > > > > out on > > > > > > > > > > $('<table>').append('<caption>'); Is > caption > > > > > > supported? > > > > > > > > > > $('<table>').append('<tbody>'); works fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > it's not jQuery which is ignoring your request. jQuery > indirectly > > > > uses > > > > > > > > > the browser's internal facilities for creating DOM trees, > which > > > > means > > > > > > > > > that the browser's engine is the one denying you. According > to > > > > this > > > > > > > > > site: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_caption.asp > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the caption must be the first tag after TABLE, before TBODY > (if > > > > any). > > > > > > > > > But after some experimentation via their "try it" link, i > couldn't > > > > get > > > > > > > > > it to fail either way, but maybe konqueror is especially > tollerant > > > > > > > > > ( i.e., not compliant) here. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My guess is that when you create your <table> the TBODY is > > > > > > > > > automatically getting added to it (someone posted > complaining > > > > about > > > > > > > > > that behaviour a few days ago), which means that your > > > > append(caption) > > > > > > > > > will fail and your append(tbody) is actually NOT working > because > > > > the > > > > > > > > > tbody is already in the table when that is reached. But > that's a > > > > > > > > > guess. Try inspecting the dom after you create the table, > before > > > > you > > > > > > > > > append the caption/tbody. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Benjamin Sterling > > > > > > http://www.KenzoMedia.com > > > > > > http://www.KenzoHosting.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Benjamin Sterling > > > > http://www.KenzoMedia.com > > > > http://www.KenzoHosting.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > Benjamin Sterling > http://www.KenzoMedia.com > http://www.KenzoHosting.com
