Could it be failing on your query? jQuery(' > img', this).attr(alt);
I beleive that there has to be something before the >. The way it's set, you're saying all img tags that are the child of nothing. jQuery('body > img', this).attr(alt); might be better, but I don't know what you're looking for precisely. -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KnoxBaby Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:33 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: jQuery to create dynamic HTML-Content in a table If i use uid = jQuery(' > img', this).attr(alt); no more code after this line is being executed :( E.g.: [code] $('table tr:eq(0) td:gt(0)').each(function(i) { // If it's a col that contains an <img> (than the <td> has the class 'imgg') if($(this).is('.imgg')) { alert(i); $(this).append('#1'); // Read out img's alt-attribute and save to array uid = jQuery('> img', this).attr(alt); uids[ i ] = uid; // Testoutput to the matched header-column $(this).append('#2'); } }); [/code] #1 is prepended, but #2 not :( And #1 only for the first <td> even though there are more matched td's ... On 24 Apr., 11:52, KnoxBaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ah ok cool, thanks so far. I'm gonna try this out! If anybody has more > tipps on how to achieve my goal, just reply :) Thanks a lot!!! > > On 24 Apr., 10:38, "Aaron Heimlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:31 AM, KnoxBaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > E.g. I don't know how to combine $(this) in the each function with > > > another selector. > > > > $(this + ' > img').attr('alt') didn't work to get the content of > > > the 'alt' attribute (which serves to be the UID)... Same with the tid ... > > > Try this: > > > jQuery('> img', this).attr('alt'); > > > jQuery() has a second parameter which allows you specify the "context" > > (basically, where to start searching from) of a selector. It > > defaults to document if not specified. > > > > On 24 Apr., 09:18, KnoxBaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I thought to do it perhaps this way: > > > > > -First read the header (columns). Thererfor, I have to provide > > > > something like <div id="%uid%"></div> in it so that jQuery can > > > > read out how many names there are and "save" their uids in an > > > > array > > > > -Secondly: Go throught each <tr> and prove wether the first <td> > > > > contains a date mm.dd.yyyy (if not, than it's a perhaps the row > > > > with "April 08" etc ...). If yes, save the tid (therefor, > > > > provide something > > > > like: <div id="%tid%"></div>) > > > > -In this <tr> (if it's a date) go through each <td> and insert > > > > the html code with the %tid% and take the uid from the > > > > uids-Array > > > > > Could somebody help me with it since I don't know much about it > > > > :( > > > > > On 23 Apr., 22:13, KnoxBaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a big table. It has a header on the right side (dates) > > > > > and on the top (names of persons). > > > > > Each date has an ID (tid) and each person an user-id (uid). > > > > > This table is generated in PHP: > > > > > >http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7624/zwischenablage02ow0.jpg > > > > >(Table > > > > > Layout) > > > > > > Each user can set for himself a preference (Yes, No, Perhaps) > > > > > to a date. > > > > > > Therefor, he hovers in his column a row and the following > > > > > html-code comes up (marked pink): > > > > > >http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/7711/zwischenablage04aa7.jpg > > > > > > To achieve that, I do the following: > > > > > > I use an ID ($cell_id = $tid . $uid) for each cell and > > > > > print-out something like that: > > > > > > <div onmouseover="toggleOn($cell_id)" > > > > > onmouseout="toggleOff($cell_id)"> show here the actual status > > > > > symbol ... > > > > > </div> > > > > > <div id="$cell_id"> > > > > > Edit: > > > > > ...the 3 links to change status to with their symbols as link > > > > > </div> > > > > > > You can imagine that it's a lot of code. The filesize is about > > > > > 1.3MB and takes ages to load (the person that "runs" the > > > > > date-planer wants it like that; to show up all dates and > > > > > persons on ONE page). Now I removed the code that makes the > > > > > hover and the hidden-div with the change-links and get only about 177Kbyte. > > > > > > Now I ask myself if it would be possible with jQuery to manage > > > > > it somehow ... > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks!!!! > > > -- > > Aaron Heimlich > > Web Developer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://aheimlich.freepgs.com/