Thanks Karl
So am I "storing" data wrongly - whats the easiest structure to
display things, be semantically correct, and search for name/value
pairs ? For me DL's seemed the natural way but perhaps I need to put
the name and value into attributes of something, then display them
separately ?
Karl Swedberg wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> You could do something like this (though there must be a cleaner way?):
>
> $('dt').filter(function() {
> return $(this).text() == a;
> }).next('dd').filter(function() {
> return $(this).text() == b;
> })
>
>
> --Karl
> _________________
> Karl Swedberg
> www.englishrules.com
> www.learningjquery.com
>
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Andiih wrote:
>
> >
> > Newbie question. I'm trying to right a selector that matches content
> > in a definition list. At the moment I have
> >
> > $("dt:contains('" + a + "')").next("dd:contains('" + b + "')")
> >
> > which kind of works, but I really want equals rather than contains.
> > Somehow I have managed to right 80% of a feature based navigation
> > system in one evening (blimey - jQuery is powerful!), but I can't get
> > this right!
> >
> > Andrew
