You can shorten that to:
if ( !$('#phrases li.active').is(':first-child') ) {
On Dec 10, 12:47 pm, nachocab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Richard!
> You saved my life :-)
>
> On Dec 10, 2:36 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You're comparing two different (ie non-equal) jQuery objects that happen to
> > contain (in an array-like fashion) the same DOM Element. If you want to
> > compare those two DOM Elements, change
>
> > $("#phrases").find("li.active") != $("#phrases").find("li:first")
>
> > to
>
> > $("#phrases").find("li.active")[0] != $("#phrases").find("li:first")[0]
>
> > - Richard
>
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:05 AM, nachocab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I have this html:
>
> > > <ul id="phrases">
> > > <li id="phrase_0" class="active">This is my first phrase</li>
> > > <li id="phrase_1">This is my second_phrase</li>
> > > </ul>
>
> > > And I wanted to do this comparison:
> > > if ( $("#phrases").find("li.active") != $("#phrases").find
> > > ("li:first") ) {
> > > alert("the active list-item is not the first one");
> > > }
>
> > > The problem is the alert pops up, but in this case the first item is
> > > clearly the active one. Can anybody figure out what's wrong?
>
> > > Thanks!
>
> > > Nacho
