Yes, I must admit I did not test the actual documented example - I was heading more at the root of the problem, ie what wasn't working with Pluthos' script that caused him to try the example in the first place!
Klaus Hartl wrote: > > > Pluthos wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I am new to this group. I have been trying to get filter(function) to >> work for a few days without success. My goal was to remove DOM >> elements that did not belong to a pre-arranged array. Out of >> desperation I tried the example given in the on line documentation at >> http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/filter#fn. The example is: >> >> $("p").filter(function(index) { >> return $("ol", this).length == 0; >> }); >> >> with the corresponding HTML code: >> >> <p><ol><li>Hello</li></ol></p><p>How are you?</p> >> >> THIS DID NOT WORK! >> >> Is it a bug in jQuery or am I doing something wrong? Could one of you >> try this same example? Thank you. >> >> Pluthos >> >> > > > This is because a <p> element cannot contain a <ol> element and the > filter like any other related selector simply does not match, because > the browser's tag soup parser closes the <p> element before the <ol> > starts. > > As of lately this problem was discussed pretty often, see the following > thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/e8790c05fdfd754e/9044472237a98127?lnk=gst&q=simple+list&rnum=2#9044472237a98127 > > And the problem explained in more detail: > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/50fa1b33346c54d4/9d9c13f8328e8bad#9d9c13f8328e8bad > > > --Klaus > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/filter%28fn%29-tf4411567s15494.html#a12589785 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
