That's an XPath selector, not a CSS selector. To do that in jQuery you
would need to do:
$("tr:not(:has(th)):even")
--John
On Dec 20, 9:38 am, "chinnakarup...@gmail.com"
<chinnakarup...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried a eg for :not operator.According to which it should not pick
> up the Table header but it does .what am i missing.
> One more question ....
> what is the significance of putting the 'th' in the square bracket .is
> it OK to write like this.
>
> $('tr:not(th):even').addClass('even');
>
> 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'>
>
> .even{
> background-color:blue;
> }
>
> </style>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="/lib/jquery/
> jquery.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function(){
>
> $('tr:not([th]):even').addClass('even');
>
> })
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <table>
> <tr> <th>Title</th> <th>Category</th> </tr>
> <tr> <td>As You Like It</td> <td>Comedy</td></tr>
> <tr> <td>All's Well that Ends Well</td> <td>Comedy</td></tr>
> <tr> <td>Hamlet</td> <td>Tragedy</td></tr>
> <tr> <td>Macbeth</td> <td>Tragedy</td></tr>
> <tr> <td>Romeo and Juliet</td> <td>Tragedy</td></tr>
> <tr> <td>Henry IV, Part I</td> <td>History</td></tr>
> <tr> <td>Henry V</td> <td>History</td></tr>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
