Thanks. This works. I realized what I'm really trying to do is find
the first instance of '.target' regardless of whether it's a parent or
sibling. Is this possible? The script you suggested will only find it
if it's a sibling of the parent.
Thoughts?
On Nov 5, 1:23 pm, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're using jQuery 1.2, you can do it like this:
>
> $(".btn").click(function(){
> $(this).parent().prevAll(".target:first").css('color','red');
>
> });
>
> --Karl
>
> On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Jonathan Sharp wrote:
>
> > .find() only searches down the tree (so child elements of .btn).
> > You may need some combination of .parents() or .siblings().
>
> > Cheers,
> > -Jonathan
>
> > On 11/5/07, nemozob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm trying to target the closets instance of an element with a
> > class name target but I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this.
>
> > So given this HTML
>
> > <p class="target">how are you?</p>
> > <p>hello</p>
> > <p class="target">how are you?</p> <-- want to target this paragraph
> > <p>I am fine</p>
> > <div>
> > <div class="btn">button</div>
> > </div>
>
> > I'm trying to use something like the following to find the closest
> > previous "target" element to "btn".
>
> > $(".btn").click(function(){
> > $(this).find(".target:first").css('color','red');
> > });
>
> > Any ideas?
