Whoops.... too soon to celebrate. It worked only in Firefox 2 but NOT on IE 6 (Windows XP). I'll try to fiddle with the code and see if I can make it work in IE.
On Aug 24, 4:58 pm, Feed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes! Jörn, thank you very much for your amazingly quick reply, it > worked :) > > And sorry for taking your time with this noob question. > > On Aug 24, 4:52 pm, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Feed schrieb:> What I need is this: > > > > [IMG]http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/feed_turbo/Misc/ > > > jquery_validation.gif[/IMG] > > > > I've tried several combinations but I can't achieve what I want. In > > > theory this code should work, shouldn't it? > > > > errorPlacement: function(error, element) { > > > > error.appendTo( element.parent("td").next("td").next("td").next("td") ); > > > } > > > next() works only on a single tree branch, it can't "hop" to the next > > table row. The first next("td") in your approach won't find any element, > > because there is none in that row anymore. You need to traverse to the > > parent row, to the next row, to the second td. This should do the trick: > > > errorPlacement: function(error, element) { > > error.appendTo( element.parent().parent().next().find(">td:last") ); > > > } > > > Let me know if you need any other help with the plugin. And if the above > > actually works I'll add an example to the docs, let me know what you > > find :-) > > > -- Jörn
