Thanks everyone - it did the trick all right! I had tried to use
the :not selector previously but didin't have the syntax right,
something I need to try brush up on & could maybe be a little clearer
in documentation especially seeing as many designers (like myself) who
use JQuery wouldn't have the most flexible programming brains :)
Thanks again & happy coding!
On Apr 24, 11:07 pm, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this should do it:
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
> $('div.adminMsgSummary dl:not(:first)').hide();
>
> });
>
> :-)
>
> --Karl
> _________________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:53 AM, cloudsteph wrote:
>
>
>
> > I think I may have been looking at this a little too long or something
> > to cause it not to work coz it seems like it should be pretty simple
> > to do, but it no work for me :( What I want to do is loop through all
> > the <dl> elements within a certain div and hide all of them except for
> > the first one. Here's my broken code:
>
> > function initDashboard(){
> > $(document).ready(function(){
> > if($(".adminMsgSummary").length > 0){
> > var theCount = $(".adminMsgSummary dl").length-1;
> > for(z=1;z<=theCount;z++){
> > var theDl = $(".adminMsgSummary dl");
> > theDl[z].hide("fast");
> > }
> > }
> > });
> > }
>
> > Any ideas??????
