Would that be a <tbody> in the way? Try putting it there yourself,
this should avoid the problem:
<table cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
On Nov 19, 11:57 pm, go_dores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First of all, I'm just getting started with jQuery so thanks in
> advance for your patience. I have a table that I am manipulating and
> I need to remove a row under a certain condition. I originally wrote
> the test below:
>
> if (theTr.previousSibling && theTr.previousSibling.className ==
> "headerrow" &&
> (!theTr.nextSibling || theTr.nextSibling.className == "headerrow"))
>
> In English, I have a tr element stored in the variable theTr. I am
> testing for the case where its previous and next siblings have a
> certain CSS class.
>
> This code works fine on IE and Safari, but does not work on Firefox.
> It look like in Firefox the tr's have extra text node siblings in
> between them. What I would like to do to fix this is to find a jQuery
> expression that will allow me to do this in a cleaner way. So what I
> need is an expression that will search backward for the first tr
> sibling, and forward for the first tr sibling, skipping over the extra
> gunk that seems to be there with Firefox.
>
> Here was my last stab at this before I gave up and decided to ask for
> help :-). The problem with the code below is that it seems to be
> looking at the immediate previous element and checking to see if it's
> a tr, and of course that is false in Firefox.
>
> if ($(theTr).prev("tr").is(".departmentrow") &&
> ($(theTr).next("tr").is(".departmentrow") || $(theTr).is("tr:last-
> child")))
>
> Long story short, what's the best way to do a search like this? Any
> pointers would be appreciated.
