Jonathan and Karl : thanks for your replies.
Jonathan : I probably gave the impression that I wanted each 3rd <li>
value copied to each array element. Your code worked brilliantly for
that and I've stored it away for another day.
Karl: that's exactly what I wanted. Problem solved. (BTW I use your
'Reference Guide' all the time)
On 5 Feb, 01:00, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oops. I forgot to take out the "ul:first " part of the selector. I had
> put that in there when I was testing on a random page in Firebug, so
> you can safely take it out. Also, if your LIs just have text in them,
> you can use $(this).text() instead of $(this).html()
>
> --Karl
>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Karl Swedberg wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
>
> > I may have misunderstood what you were going for, but here is a
> > different approach, just in case you were looking for an array like
> > ['abc', 'def', 'ghi']:
>
> > var txt = '', array1 = [];
> > $('ul:first li').each(function(i){
> > txt = txt + $(this).html();
> > if (i % 3 == 2) {
> > array1.push(txt);
> > txt = '';
> > }
> > });
>
> > --Karl
> > _________________
> > Karl Swedberg
> >www.englishrules.com
> >www.learningjquery.com
>
> > On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Sharp wrote:
>
> >> Hi Paul,
>
> >> This should do the trick:
>
> >> $('li').each(function(i){
> >> array1[ Math.floor( i / 3 ) ] = $(this).html();
> >> });
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Jonathan
>
> >> On 2/4/08, Paul Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> I know the following would work if I wanted to copy the values of
> >> *each*
> >> <li>
> >> to a separate array element.
>
> >> <html>
> >> <head>
> >> <title></title>
>
> >> <script type = "text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
>
> >> <script type = "text/javascript">
> >> var array1 = new Array() ;
> >> $(document).ready(function()
> >> {
> >> $('li').each(function(i) { array1[i] = this.innerHTML ) })
> >> })
> >> </script>
>
> >> </head>
>
> >> <body>
>
> >> <ul>
> >> <li>a</li>
> >> <li>b</li>
> >> <li>c</li>
>
> >> <li>d</li>
> >> <li>e</li>
> >> <li>f</li>
>
> >> <li>g</li>
> >> <li>h</li>
> >> <li>i</li>
> >> </ul>
>
> >> </body>
>
> >> </html>
>
> >> However, I would like like to copy the *concatenated* values of
> >> each group
> >> of
> >> 3 <li>'s to 1 array element.
> >> (eg) the 1st array element would have a value of 'abc', the 2nd array
> >> element would have a value of 'def', and the 3rd array element
> >> would have a
> >> value of 'ghi' etc.
>
> >> What is the best way to do this?
>
> >> TIA
