and since you're dealing with an entire UL, rather than targetting sections if you're dead set on doing it programatically you might aswell assign the class hilight to the UL rather than all the child A and have the css below to handle that
ul.hilight a { background-color:#f00; color:#fff; } On Apr 24, 11:34 am, "ryan.j" <ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com> wrote: > it's easier as a CSS jobby, rather than JS > > ul:hover a { background-color:#f00; color:#fff; } > > but that won't work in ie6 though. > > On Apr 24, 9:26 am, Joseph Le Brech <jlebr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > why do you need to give it a class programmaticaly? > > > try this: > > > $("ul a").addClass("highlight"); > > >http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/descendant#ancestordescendant > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – > > Free.http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/