thanks, that pointed me in the right direction...
On Jun 4, 5:12 pm, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can only think of somehow circumventing to use grouped selectors,
> e.g. search by class (which is ugly probably):
>
> $('.find-me').eq(0).addClass('found-it');
>
> or search by universal selector and filter by type afterwards:
>
> $('body *').filter('h2, h4, p, ul').eq(0).addClass('found-it');
>
> Not sure if that yields the desired result... and how good it would
> perform.
>
> --Klaus
>
> On 4 Jun., 22:11, andjules <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > this is not a surprise... it is right in the docs:
>
> > >http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/multiple#selector1selector2selectorN
> > > "Note order of the dom elements in the jQuery object aren't
> > > necessarily identical."
>
> > BUT, I need to match a handful of things and add to the first match in
> > the DOM, e.g.:
> > $('h2,h4,p,ul').eq(0).addClass('found-it');
>
> > unfortunately, it looks for all h2 THEN all h4 THEN all p THEN all ul,
> > instead of scanning the dom for matches in the order of the DOM...
>
> > So my question is: how would I achieve this: find the first match for
> > multiple selectors, as it appears in the DOM?
>
> > Thanks
