I swear I tried this... However of course it works now and probably did before.
Thank you sir. Works as expected now and my love for jQuery only grows. -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Resig Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:27 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Partial .load() If you only want the children, just use a child selector: $("#topic").load("help.html #topic-example > *"); The other selector mentioned "#topic-example *" will get you all descendants, which will certainly give you strange results. --John On 9/24/07, Smith, Allex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm going nuts with a fairly simple selector issue. > $("#topic").load("help.html #topic-example"); I want to get the > contents of #topic-example, but only the children, not the container > itself. What is the proper way to do this. It seems so simple, but I'm > struggling with it. > Thanks > AllexS >