Mauricio and Ricardo,
I applied all the suggestions, parent(), parents() and all the other
functions, but still to no avail. The weird thing is that when I
strip out all the styles, attributes and events from the elements and
reduce the number of "tr"s to less than 10 but keep the structure
intact, it works!
At any rate, thanks to all. Too much effort has gone fruitless at
this point. I will have to resort to a different solution altogether.
jake
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva
<css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, BigAB <adamlbarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > have you tried
>> > var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('tr').find('td:first').text();
>> > alert(myText);
>>
>> > The TR is really the parent of the TDs, not the table.
>
> For information only.
> I've used parents() not parent().
> parents() means ancestor and table is ancestor of TDs
>
> See: http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing
> Maurício
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -----Mensagem Original-----
> De: Ricardo
> Para: jQuery (English)
> Enviada em: quarta-feira, 3 de junho de 2009 15:15
> Assunto: [jQuery] Re: text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get it
>
> There is no reason why you shouldn't get this working with one of the
> examples provided. For the nesting issue, filter with :first:
>
> $('#knowndiv').parents('tr:first').children('td:first').text();
>
> parents(xx:first) is similar to closest(xx), only the latter will also
> try to match the element itself.
>
> On Jun 3, 1:01 pm, jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that is the first thing I did, to no avail. I think all I am
>> left with just trudging through this with pure javascript.
>> jake
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, BigAB <adamlbarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > have you tried
>> > var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('tr').find('td:first').text();
>> > alert(myText);
>>
>> > The TR is really the parent of the TDs, not the table.
>>
>> > On Jun 3, 7:33 am, jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Mauricio, your code basically works fine on a simple test page. But
>> >> there is something about my set-up that makes the bit about
> ...
