On Nov 25, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Benjamin Sterling wrote:
Karl,
That is what I expected get too, just needed to clarify.
If you just want to select table cells, why not do $
('td:contains(Cell)') ?
I am doing an article on selectors and selector speeds and was
experimenting on what approach is faster[1] and when I got to this
selector, I would have expected the BODY and HTML be selected also,
but since it did not, I started to second guess myself.
I have a test page up at
http://benjaminsterling.com/articles/jQuery-%20Select%20what%20you%20want%20-%20part%201.htm
and if you hit the "Test 10 toggle" button, you will see that only
the table elements are getting the background color of #FF0 as well
as the DIV that the TABLE is wrapped in, leaving the BODY, and HTML
tags alone. So would you say this is a bug or something we should
expect?
Nah, I'd say it's doing exactly what your selector is asking it to
do. :-) The "test 10 toggle" button looks for all elements with
":contains('Cell')" within the context of all elements with
class="theDiv". That's why the html and body tags aren't being included.
from your script:
$(":contains('Cell')", ".theDiv").css("background", "#ff0");
Try it without the contextual selector, and you'll see that everything
turns yellow:
$(":contains('Cell')").css("background", "#ff0")
Cheers,
Karl
