What's the preferred/simplest way to get hold of the immediate parent of
a DOM element?
I've got a table in which some cells are editable (I'm using the
excellent editable plugin by Dylan Verheul). When a cell is changed, the
database gets updated and the Ajax callback needs to recalculate the
I'm just getting into the ins and outs of JQuery but I believe you can
use the .parent() method to do that. Something like this:
$("p").parent()
HTH.
Rey...
Bruce McKenzie wrote:
> What's the preferred/simplest way to get hold of the immediate parent of
> a DOM element?
>
> I've got a table i
Parent() works, and also xPath expressions: (damn, jquery has so much power on traversal)refer to: http://jquery.com/docs/Base/_expression_/XPath/Example: $("../",this) should get the parent too.
It actually would really help "Getting Started" if someone would write a bunch (like 100) of common tra
Good point about using $("../",this) as an alternative to using
$(this).parent(), though I've noticed that the syntax should be $("..",this)
to return the parent, while $("../",this) returns siblings. Does this sound
right?
Cheers,
George Adamson
Glen Lipka wrote:
>
> Parent() works, and also
I liked this traversal examples idea, so I put some basic ones I've used in the jQuery cookbook to get it started. Could probably use some more 'interesting' examples :D.
BlairOn 9/24/06, Glen Lipka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Parent() works, and also xPath expressions: (damn, jquery has so much pow
