> I thought the cascading selectors would have chosen the dp_properties > class that is the first child level of the selected div. . .not the > dp_properties class buried two levels down (but appearing first in the > DOM listing).
jQuery selectors work pretty much the same way they do in CSS. This selects all *descendants* of #mydiv that have class .myclass: #mydiv .myclass This selects all *immediate children* of #mydiv that have class .myclass: #mydiv > .myclass The "#395 .dp_properties" selector finds two divs and you are only alerting the dp_id value of the first one. Also, in a valid HTML4 document, ids can't start with a digit and there is no dp_id attribute on divs. Invalid HTML may not work on all browsers. http://validator.w3.org/
