[jQuery] Re: is there an opposite of 'closet' selector

2009-09-11 Thread Ricardo
Quite complicated. You should be using some identifier to do this and not rely on the HTML tree, and tables are meant for tabular data. This might work anyway, if there are no a after .timer: $('.timer').parents('table').find('a:last') or $('table:has(.timer)').prev('table').find('a') On Sep

[jQuery] Re: is there an opposite of 'closet' selector

2009-09-10 Thread MorningZ
btw, the HTML would be something like table tbody tr td table tbody tr tda href=...Update/a/td /tr /tbody /table /td

[jQuery] Re: is there an opposite of 'closet' selector

2009-09-10 Thread ryan.j
not sure if there is a neat way of doing it, but providing the nested tables aren't too busy would it be horribly inefficient to do something like this? get the prev a to span, check if span is closest to a, if false get the prev a to the current a and test again, if true you have your element.

[jQuery] Re: is there an opposite of 'closet' selector

2009-09-10 Thread MorningZ
get the prev a to span that's all i need... but the .prev() selector only seems to go up the DOM, it won't go back into the table row that the two tables share On Sep 10, 5:29 pm, ryan.j ryan.joyce...@googlemail.com wrote: not sure if there is a neat way of doing it, but providing the nested