I have been playing around with this.
http://www.commadot.com/jquery/selectorChildren.php
It's interesting to me how text and html act differently in terms of
encoding and what actually shows up.
It's also interesting to see how text nodes and a div are treated.
I am confused. Why aren't the grandchildren being included in the call for
children()?
Using $("#content *") gets all the grandkids. I thought parents() gets all
the grandparents. Is children different?
Glen
On 9/12/07, Richard D. Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 9/12/07, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sep 12, 9:20 pm, "John Resig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > .html() only gets the innerHTML for the first matched element.
> >
> > i think that's what the OP is saying: the element's HTML he's getting
> > back is *not* that of the first child element:
> >
> > > > <div id="content">
> > > > <div id="panelPreview" class="fieldset_theme">
> > > > <div id="panelPreview_inner" class="hPanel">
> >
> > ...
> > > > </div>
> > > > </div>
> > > > </div>
> >
> > Now his children() call:
> >
> > > > alert($('#content').children().html());
> >
> > should return a result starting with <div id="panelPreview"...>
>
>
> as John pointed out, html() returns innerHTML, not outer, so <div
> id="panelPreview"...> should only be expected if $('#content').html() were
> called.
>
> Breaking down $('#content').children().html() :
> 1. $('#content') selects the outermost div which has an innerHTML of
> <div id="panelPreview" class="fieldset_theme">
> <div id="panelPreview_inner" class="hPanel">
> <fieldset>
> <legend>[Section/Panel Heading]</legend>
> </fieldset>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> 2. .children() selects all its children, in this case there's only 1 -
> #panelPreview which has an innerHTML of
> <div id="panelPreview_inner" class="hPanel">
> <fieldset>
> <legend>[Section/Panel Heading]</legend>
> </fieldset>
> </div>
>
> 3. .html() returns the innerHTML of the first element in the
> selection/first child of #content. See step 2
>
> Looks correct to me, though maybe not what's wanted.
>
> - Richard
>
>
