Check out the ":last-child" selector
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/lastChild
and if it doesn't work, then start small... copy the example HTML
from the link above and have a page with nothing but that, so you see
it works in your environment..... something else codewise (wrong
selector, some conflict, whatever) is causing an issue
On Jan 15, 11:32 am, the cliff <leperisl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this, I tried it and firebug tells me it didn't work :(
>
> The thing is :last doesnt seem to work AT ALL for me, EG:
>
> $("ul li:last").css("border", "1px solid red");
>
> does absolutely nothing
>
> On Jan 15, 4:06 pm, MorningZ <morni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > that will get the :last(or :first) for the first row only.... as it
> > will return 1 single object
>
> > you need to do something like
>
> > $("tr").each(function() { $(this).find("td:last").css("border",
> > "none"); });
>
> > which will loop across each row and do the code to thelastor first
> > object
>
> > On Jan 15, 9:05 am, the cliff <leperisl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi there, I am doing some table row colouring with :odd (this works as
> > > expected), but:
>
> > > $("tr td:last").css("border", "none");
>
> > > does nothing! I did some further testing on other selectors with other
> > > more obvious classes and the selector :lastand :first don't seem to
> > > select anything.
>
> > > I have tried this with jQuery 1.2 and 1.3.
>
> > > Any help would be appreciated, thanks
