Assuming the base UL or any of it's parents are contained in another
UL (which would mess this up):
$(this).parents('ul').find('a').addClass('highlight');
On Apr 23, 5:00 pm, paulinstl <paulsha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Request: I want to highlight every "<A>" within the parents of an
> object up to the base element of "<UL>"
>
> For example, this original code:
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/">link</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/">HOVER OVER THIS</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> </ul>
>
> Should appear like so (assuming an addclass method):
>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> <li><a href="/" class="highlight">link</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> <li><a href="/" class="highlight">link</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/" class="highlight">link</a>
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/" class="highlight">HOVER OVER THIS</a></
> li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> </ul>
> </li>
> <li><a href="/">link</a></li>
> </ul>
>
> I'm at a loss and I'm tired. Can you help a brother out? Basically
> the best path from A to Z
>
> Thanks for glancing at this.
>
> paul
