[jQuery] Re: Why doesn't my prev() work?

[Karl Swedberg]

You're right Aaron. The attribute selector was malformed. The other  
problem is that the '.child' element is not the previous sibling of  
the 'a[name=selected]' element, which is what the .prev() method is  
looking for.

Keir, you need to go *up* the DOM. Also, not sure why you want to hide  
that element only to immediately show it again. But anyway, you could  
do it like this:

$('a[name=selected]').parent().parent().show();

or like this:

$('a[name=selected]').parents('ul.child').show();


--Karl

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Karl Swedberg
www.englishrules.com
www.learningjquery.com




On Sep 9, 2008, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I think your attribute selector is malformed.

Try:

<script type="text/javascript">
           $(document).ready(function() {
           $('.child').hide();
           $("a[name='selected']").prev('.child').show();
           });
</script>

On Sep 9, 6:43 am, Keir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm sure to a whizz this is going to be a bit of a noob question, but
why doesn't my prev() work here:

<script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
            $('.child').hide();
            $('name=selected').prev('.child').show();
            });
</script>

HTML:

<ul class="parent">
<li><a href="">test 1</a></li>
<li><a href="">test 1</a>
<ul class="child">
<li><a href="" name="selected">test 1</a></li>
<li><a href="">test 1</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">test 1</a>
<ul class="child">
<li><a href="">test 1</a></li>
<li><a href="">test 1</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Cheers chaps,

Keir