Mauricio, your code basically works fine on a simple test page. But
there is something about my set-up that makes the bit about
".parents('table')" fail. My page still has the same exact element
structure with 2 differences; there are 52 "tr"s in the table; also,
all the elements (tables, trs, tds, divs...what have you,) are all
full of styles, attributes, and onclick events to a fairly large
extent.
Other variations and combination of jQuery functions fail as well in
getting the parent of this div in my page.
I guess I'll just keep on truckin'.
jake
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva
<css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('table').find('td:first').text();
> alert(myText);
>
> Maurício
>
> -----Mensagem Original-----
> De: con-man-jake
> Para: jQuery (English)
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 2 de junho de 2009 16:38
> Assunto: [jQuery] text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get it
>
> Still a newbie.
> I have this:
>
> <table>
> <tr>
>
> <td>
> text I want to get
> </td>
>
> <td>
> </td>
>
> <td>
> <div id="knowndiv"></div>
> </td>
>
> <tr>
> </table>
>
> If I have the div with id of "knowndiv" as an object (call it "obj"),
> How do I get the text inside the first <td>?
