Looks like a bug to me. In this case it seems like doing just "li" would be equivalent to what you want. Could you file it here? http://dev.jquery.com/newticket
--John
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sjeiti <sje...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've build a recursive tree. Now I'm trying to get the number of list
> elements but I get weirds results:
> $("li").length = 10;
> $("body>ul li").length = 4;
> Is this right?.. or a bug...
> (1.2.6 works as expected)
>
>
> [code]
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://
> www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=utf-8" /
>>
> <!--script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/
> jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></script-->
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></
> script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(function(){
> $("body").prepend("$(\"body>ul li\").length =
> "+ $("body>ul
> li").length +";<br/>");
> $("body").prepend("$(\"li\").length = "+
> $("li").length +";<br/
>>");
> });
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
> <ul>
> <li>
> <span>a</span>
> <ul>
> <li>
> <span>aa</span>
> </li>
> <li>
> <span>ab</span>
> </li>
> <li>
> <span>ac</span>
> <ul>
> <li>
>
> <span>aca</span>
> </li>
> <li>
>
> <span>acb</span>
> </li>
> <li>
>
> <span>acc</span>
> </li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li>
> <span>b</span>
> </li>
> <li>
> <span>c</span>
> </li>
> <li>
> <span>d</span>
> </li>
> </ul>
> </body>
> </html>
> [/code]
