I knew that Karl, just seeing if you were paying attention. ;)
I totally forgot I was doing that, guess that is what I get when trying to
code with very little sleep. Thanks.
On 11/25/07, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
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