It is because you are not understanding what ">" means in a selector
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/child#parentchild "Matches all child elements specified by "child" of elements specified by "parent"" so while "#editableTable" is the id of the <table> tag, then $("#editableTable > input") wouldn't grab anything since there are no <input> objects that are direct children of the parent <table> drop the ">" and your jQuery code should work fine On Dec 10, 9:21 pm, Felix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I am running into the following problem. > > <TABLE width="820PX" align=center border=0 id="editableTable" > > > <TR class="rowbgon"> > <TD colspan="1" > > > <input type="hidden" id='Seq_0' value="1509"/> > </TD> > <TD colspan="1" > > <input type="text" > name="Number" value="0.1.1" style="width: > 113px" id="FormDraft_0_2"></TD> > <TD colspan="1" > > <input type="text" id="name" > value="me" /> > </TD> > <TD colspan="1" > > <input type="text" > name="receivedDate" value="22-Oct-2008" > readonly="readonly" style="width:113px" id="RecivedDate_0_4"></TD> > <TD colspan="1" > > <input type="text" > id="recDate" value="01-Nov-2008"/> > <TD colspan="1" > > <input type="text" > name="actualCompletionDate" value="01- > Nov-2008" readonly="readonly" style="width:113px" > id="ActualCompletionDate_0_5"></td> > <TD colspan="1" > > <input type="text" > id="ACDDate" value="01-Nov-2008"/> > </TD> > </TR> </table> > > My Jquery looks like this > $("#editableTable > input[id*='ActualCompletionDate_']").each(function > (){ > alert("selected = "+$(this).val()); > > }); > > and when I ran it, nothing is alert out
