[jQuery] Re: Simple Selector Question -- Context

2008-12-04 Thread Joe
Thanks Ricardo, looks good. On Dec 3, 10:14 am, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or pError.filter(':visible'). > > By using 'pError' as a context, you are looking for it's children, not > the elements themselves. > > - ricardo > > On Dec 3, 1:17 pm, Liam Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[jQuery] Re: Simple Selector Question -- Context

2008-12-04 Thread Joe
Liam, Right, but that defeats the point of "caching" the jQuery object that was created by: var pError = $('p.error'); Since I'm just calling it again with a different selector, namely, the :visible one. On Dec 3, 9:17 am, Liam Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it would be this > > $('p.erro

[jQuery] Re: Simple Selector Question -- Context

2008-12-03 Thread ricardobeat
Or pError.filter(':visible'). By using 'pError' as a context, you are looking for it's children, not the elements themselves. - ricardo On Dec 3, 1:17 pm, Liam Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it would be this > > $('p.error:visible') > > Joe wrote: > > If I have the following: > > > var pEr

[jQuery] Re: Simple Selector Question -- Context

2008-12-03 Thread Liam Potter
it would be this $('p.error:visible') Joe wrote: If I have the following: var pError = $('p.error'); Then I can do the following with no problem: pError.text('lorem"); Yet, I want to check for the paragraphs that have the class "error" that are visible, I would think it is something like t