thanks so much karl. that worked first time.
On Oct 8, 8:41 pm, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:48 AM, webdesignamite wrote:
>
> > SO, WHAT IM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS HOW DO I REFERENCE THE NEXT
> > ELEMENT WITH CLASS OF .CLEAR FROM MY PARENT ELEMENT -
>
> > this gives me the id of the next element with respect to parent (for
> > trial and error purposes, ive given all of my .cleared class divs an
> > id, ids will be removed)
>
> > var parentId="dynamic";
> > $("#"+parentId).next().get(0).id
>
> > so i thought i would need something along the lines of this but it
> > doesnt work -
>
> > var parentId="dynamic";
> > $("#"+parentId).next(".clear").get(0).id
>
> You're using .next(), but that assumes that the .clear div is the very
> next sibling of the parent element. From your description of what
> you're doing, though, it isn't clear that .clear is a sibling. If it
> is, and if it comes after $("#"+parentId), then you can
> use .nextAll('.clear') instead of .next(.'clear') . If it isn't, maybe
> you could paste a snippet of your html so that we can see the
> relationship between the elements?
>
> --Karl
>
> ____________
> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
