jQuery doesn't support XPath selectors any more - you need to use CSS
selectors.
$("p").addClass("jq");
--John
On Dec 20, 9:36 am, "chinnakarup...@gmail.com"
<chinnakarup...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying XPATH selector with jquery....it doesn't seem to
> work..find below the eg.it should select the paragraph.
> can any tell me what I am missing.
>
> THnks
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=utf-8" />
> <title>New Web Project</title>
> <style type='text/css'>
>
> .jq{
> background-color:red;
>
> }
>
> </style>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="/lib/jquery/
> jquery.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("//p").addClass("jq")
> })
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h1>heading</h1>
> <p>paragraph</p>
> </body>
> </html>
