Karl,
>Yeah, it's also strange that while this doesn't work:
> $("body > ul > li").filter($li[0]);
>
>this does:
> $("body > ul > li").not($li[0]);
>
>I'm a little lost by your parents example, though. Not sure exactly
>what you're trying to get (esp. since you don't show where you've
>declared $el and $parent.
Let's say you have:
<ul>
<li id="1">
Parent 1
<ul>
<li id="2">
Child 1
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
What I want to do is see if "Child 1" has "Parent 1" somewhere in it's
parent path. I don't really care if "Child 1" would be a child of a child of
a child, just that at some point "Parent 1" was actually in the parent path.
So, I would expect to be able to do:
var $p = $("#1");
$("#2").parents($p);
Well this does work:
$("#2").parents("#1");
It doesn't work for me, since the actually "expression" I need to check
against a jQuery object that can't be reliable queried through a pure
CSS-style selector.
>couldn't you do something like
>$el.parent() ?
>or $el.parent('.someclass') ?
>or $el.parents('.someclass:first') ?
>
>(just using class in the parents filter because not sure what you're
>after).
As I stated, using a CSS expression doesn't work for me because I'm actually
checking to see if another jQuery object is somewhere in the parent's tree.
-Dan
