el[id^='quantity'] should do it for you. the ^= is starts with. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Zlochko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hallo everyone. My name is Gjoko Pargo. I am a new member of this > group, in fact - this is my first message here. I work mainly as a web > applications developer and have extensive experience in php, asp, > coldfusion, javascript and several types of databases. > Although I do have some pretty good experience in JavaScript I still > can't seem to get the grasp of some of the jQuery concepts. So I have > two pretty basic questions which I was not able to find answers for. > > 1. In one of my projects, I am building a shopping cart. The product > list quantity fields are made of input fields with id's consisted of a > reserved word and product_id combination. They look something like > this: > <input type="text" name="quantity[]" id="quantity[23]" /> > <input type="text" name="quantity[]" id="quantity[563]" /> > For those with web application experience the name quantity with it's > two square brackets gives the browser the ability to make a list of > each entry in one associative array and send it to the browser on > submit. > > My problem is - I need to select all of the form elements which have > "quantity[something]" in their id and then apply some action to them. > Could anyone please help me on how to achieve this? Is this done with > regular expressions or is there some "native" jQuery way to do this? > > 2. On the same page where the product list is, there is also a > shopping basket. What happens is that after the visitor populates the > quantities of the desired products he/she hits on the submit button, > and if everything is ok, the data is transfered to the server over > ajax submit and then the contents of the shopping basket is changed in > real time. Everything works ok, but I would like to add some eye > candy... > Namely, after submit, I want to fadeOut the shopping basket (or a > specific element), and then do a fedeIn to make the shopping basket > visible again with the new value. I was able to succeed in this, but > unfortunately the fedeOut, changeOfQuantityValue and fadeIn are not > synchronized. This means that depending on the speed of the connection > the list starts to fade out, changes the item list values (while still > visible), and then fades back in... or for slower connections: it > fades out, fades in and then change the item list values. > Any help with this? > > Thank you very much, > Gjoko Pargo. > -- http://morglog.alleycatracing.com Lets make up more accronyms! http://www.alleycatracing.com LTABOTIIOFR! ROFL! ROFL! ROFL! Upcoming alley cats, reviews, touring logs, and a general congregation of bike nerdity.
