Thanks for the reply Shane! Yes looping through the parent is an option that I was hoping to avoid. Rigth now my Timeline only displays 30 projects (each one composed of 2 <div> elements), but SIMILE Timeline generates many more <div> elements within the parent containing <div>; 380 to be exact. So I'll have to loop through 380 to find the a few <div> elements that have the appropriate background color. Since I don't generate any of the Timeline elements I'm kind of at SIMILE mercy (and I don't wat to alter their code). I guess performance wise me examining 380 <div> elements isn't any different than waht JQuery would have to do, but I was hoping for a nice elegant JQuery one liner.
It does seem like $("div[style*= firebrick]"); should work. Find all <div> elements whose "style" attribute contains "firebrick". Can anyone explain the logic why this doesn't work? Is this a bug or a documented exception that I failed to find/read? Thanks again to Shane and the rest of the JQuery community!