Are you aware that the information you were looking it is outdated,
e.g refers to jQuery 1.1.2? With the latest version you would use:
$('p:has(a)')
--Klaus
On 4 Okt., 12:29, Puneet Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> In the following code, I expect the document to pop a message box
> saying 'para1' upon load. However it doesn't seem to work. I am trying
> to select a 'p' element that has a link in it. What do u think is
> wrong ?
>
> --
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="starterkit/jquery-1.2.6.js"></
> script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function() {
> $("p[a]").each(function() {
> alert(this.id)
> });
> });
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p id='para1' class='haha'>
> <a id='para1_a1' href="http://jquery.com/";>jQuery</a>
> </p>
> <p id='para2'>
> <span>This is a span in para2</span>
> </p>
> </body>
> </html>
> ---
>
> $("p[a]") should select all paragraphs that have a link in them, which
> is true for para1
> (I got this selector
> from:http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing/Selectors#Using_CSS_and_XPath_T...)
>
> thanks,
>
> regards,
> Puneet
