Liam, Right, but that defeats the point of "caching" the jQuery object that was created by:
var pError = $('p.error'); Since I'm just calling it again with a different selector, namely, the :visible one. On Dec 3, 9:17 am, Liam Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it would be this > > $('p.error:visible') > > Joe wrote: > > If I have the following: > > > var pError = $('p.error'); > > > Then I can do the following with no problem: > > > pError.text('lorem"); > > > Yet, I want to check for the paragraphs that have the class "error" > > that are visible, I would think it is something like this: > > > var visibleError = $(':visible', pError); > > > However, this fails. > > > Is this because the visible selector is different in creating the > > wrapped set of paragraph tags with the class error? > > > What is the proper way of using the context of pError with the visible > > selector? > > > Thanks!