You're obviously way more clued up about Javascript than me, so I'm
not even going to try & understand your code! But your question
reminds me of one I had a few days ago, so I thought I'd offer it you
in case it helps:
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_frm/thread/1e5bcd25972c8153#
If it doesn't, you're no worse off ;)
Cherry
On Apr 24, 5:16 pm, tronen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I am new to jQuery and is curious if this code can be shortened
> down? It feels like it can, but I couldn't find any way to use jQuery
> selectors if I have a specific reference to a object.
>
> What I want to do is to find the element to the parent of "el" that
> the id starts with linecolorbox. I know how to do it if I want to find
> ALL the ones that id start with linecolorbox, but not if I want to
> start with a specific element as reference (el.parentNode).
>
> jQ('.linecolor').each(
> function() {
> try {
> var el = this;
> if(el.value.match(/^f{6}$/i)) {
> el.value = '';
> }
> var nodes = el.parentNode.childNodes;
> for(var i=0; i<nodes.length; i++) {
> for(var j=0;
> j<nodes[i].childNodes.length; j++) {
>
> if(nodes[i].childNodes[j].id) {
>
> if(nodes[i].childNodes[j].id.match(/^linecolorbox/)) {
> var
> colorbox = nodes[i].childNodes[j];
>
> if(el.value.match(/^[0-9a-f]{6}$/i)) {
>
> colorbox.innerHTML = ' ';
> }
> else {
>
> colorbox.innerHTML = ' X ';
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
> } catch(e) {
> alert(e.message);
> }
> }
> );
