Thanks very much mkmanning -- I realise now that the scope of eq is
the whole doc and nth-child is all n-th children of the parent. Sigh,
one day I will see this stuff more quickly myself -- meantime, thanks
again ^_^
-Alan
On Mar 2, 11:01 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $('.vfOptions tr td:nth-child(3)').addClass('status');
>
> On Mar 2, 7:15 pm, alanfluff <alan.c.bris...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am embarrassed to say I can't find a way to select the third cell in
> > each row of a table and add a class to it.
>
> > I tried this:
>
> > $('.vfOptions tr td').eq(2).addClass('status');
>
> > and it worked for the first row but not subsequent rows.
>
> > So I tried this, thinking it was the correct construct perhaps
>
> > $('.vfOptions tr td').(function() {
> > $(this).eq(2).addClass('status');
> > });
>
> > but it failed to add class to any rows at all.
>
> > I would be MOST grateful for any clues as to what I am doing wrong -
> > thanks in advance in deed!
>
> > Cheers, -Alan
