Of course! Raise right hand and hit sharply upside the head. :-) Thanks John
On Dec 12, 10:33 am, howardk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John's got an example of chaining in his book, "Pro JavaScript > Techniques", that isn't working for me. More importantly, I don't > understand what the code is intending to do, so I can make an attempt > to fix it. The code in general is adding a help cursor and a red star > to a field in a form to indicate that the field is required. The chain > looks something like this: > > $('input.required') > .prev('label') > .css('cursor','help') > .title(errMsg.required) > .append('<span class="required">*</span>'); > > I've substituted my own explicit error message for errMsg.required, > but javascript complains that .title( "..." ) is not a function. It's > not in the current API. What is the intent of this call? > > Howard