Actually you can have anything inside an LI, I've used that structure
many times. LIs are a kind of limited block level element, limited in
the sense that their parent has to be an OL or a UL.

DTs are inline elements, perhaps that's what you were thinking?

Karl Rudd

On 8/7/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You can't have a table and h4 inside of an LI - they're both
> block-level elements, so browsers automatically push them outside of
> the LI (meaning that you can't find them. You'll have to use some
> other markup structure in order to handle that.
>
> --John
>
> On 8/6/07, Dan Eastwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Dan Eastwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Aug 3, 2007 4:40 PM
> > Subject: DOM traversing problem.
> > To: jQuery Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Given this html within a form:
> >
> > <li> <!-- Children -->
> >                                 <h4><a
> > href="#Summary002">Emily</a><span>&pound;12.50</span></h4>
> >                                 <table id="Summary002" summary="">
> >                                     <tr class="accessibility">
> >                                         <th scope="col">Title</th>
> >                                         <th scope="col">Quantity</th>
> >                                         <th scope="col">Free Quantity</th>
> >                                         <th scope="col">Cost</th>
> >                                         <th scope="col">Remove</th>
> >                                     </tr>
> >                                     <tr>
> >                                         <td>Book and the order of...</td>
> >                                         <td>
> >                                             <input type="text" class="text"
> > id="Item004_qty" name="paid_qty" value="3" size="3" />
> >                                             <input type='hidden'
> > name='order_detail_id' value='6213734' />
> >                                             <input type='hidden'
> > name='child_id' value='423761' />
> >                                         </td>
> >                                         <td>
> >                                             <input type="text" class="text"
> > id="Item004_free_qty" name="free_qty" value="4" size="3" />
> >                                         </td>
> >                                         <td class="currency">&pound;<span
> > class="price">3.50</span></td>
> >                                         <td><input type="image"
> > id="Item004_remove" src="images/buttons/remove.gif" /></td>
> >                                     </tr>
> >                                     <tr>
> >                                         <td>Book and the order of...</td>
> >                                         <td>
> >                                             <input type="text" class="text"
> > id="Item005_qty" name="paid_qty" value="2" size="3" />
> >                                             <input type='hidden'
> > name='order_detail_id' value='6213735' />
> >                                             <input type='hidden'
> > name='child_id' value='423761' />
> >                                         </td>
> >                                         <td>
> >                                             <input type="text" class="text"
> > id="Item005_free_qty" name="free_qty" value="5" size="3" />
> >                                         </td>
> >                                         <td class="currency">&pound;<span
> > class="price">3.50</span></td>
> >                                         <td><input type="image"
> > id="Item005_remove" src="images/buttons/remove.gif" /></td>
> >                                     </tr>
> >                                     <tr>
> >                                         <td>Book and the order of...</td>
> >                                         <td>
> >                                             <input type="text" class="text"
> > id="Item006_qty" name="paid_qty" value="1" size="3" />
> >                                             <input type='hidden'
> > name='order_detail_id' value='6213736' />
> >                                             <input type='hidden'
> > name='child_id' value='423761' />
> >                                         </td>
> >                                         <td>
> >                                             <input type="text" class="text"
> > id="Item006_free_qty" name="free_qty" value="3" size="3" />
> >                                         </td>
> >                                         <td class="currency">&pound;<span
> > class="price">3.50</span></td>
> >                                         <td><input type="image"
> > id="Item006_remove" src="images/buttons/remove.gif" /></td>
> >                                     </tr>
> >                                 </table>
> >                             </li>
> >
> > I've found the child from the child_id
> >
> > function getCurrentTotal(child_id){
> >     var sum = 0;
> >
> >     if(child_id){
> >
> >         $("ul.orders-sumary li li [EMAIL PROTECTED]").each( function(){
> > // child in the form
> >
> >             if(this.value == child_id){ // this is the child we're looking
> > for - this works
> >
> >                 $(this).parents("li").children("tr").each(
> > function(){ // row in the child's order
> >                     var paid_qty = $(this).children("td
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]").val();  // get the value in the input with
> > name="paid"
> >                     var price = $(this).children("td span.price").text(); //
> > get the text in the span class="price"
> >                     sum +=  paid_qty * price; // multiply them together and
> > add them to the total
> >                     console.log("sum: " + sum);
> >                 });
> >                 return false;
> >             }
> >         });
> >     }
> >     return sum;
> > }
> >
> > The thing I'm trying to do is to get a total for all the price * paid_qty
> > from the data in the form.
> >
> > I can't seem to get these values from the form, for the child I've found.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Eastwell
> >
> > Portfolio and articles:
> >  http://www.thoughtballoon.co.uk
> >
> > Blog:
> > http://www.thoughtballoon.co.uk/blog
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Eastwell
> >
> > Portfolio and articles:
> > http://www.thoughtballoon.co.uk
> >
> > Blog:
> >  http://www.thoughtballoon.co.uk/blog
>

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