If mytext is a string, make sure it's quoted as said before. Your jquery selector looks ok (I did something similar recently and it works great)
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From: SteelRing <steelr...@gmail.com>
To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
Date: 02/10/2009 05:51 PM
Subject: [jQuery] Re: using :has with selector
This is going to select the td, whereas I need to select the tr.
On Feb 10, 4:41 pm, "Mauricio \(Maujor\) Samy Silva"
<css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> TD is a TR children so use the CSS descendant selector tr td.
>
> $("#tableid tbody tr td.someclass:contains('mytext'))").dosomething();
>
> PS: mytext is a string and should be quoted.
>
> Maurício
>
> -----Mensagem Original-----
> De: "SteelRing" <steelr...@gmail.com>
> Para: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2009 19:57
> Assunto: [jQuery] using :has with selector
>
>
>
> > Anyone can think of a reason why this shouldn't work? I'm trying to
> > select the Row (tr) where the cell of td with class "someclass"
> > contains "mytext". Since I want to work on the row (tr) itself, I need
> > to use :has because I don't need to select the td itself. Am I wrong
> > or am I wrong?
>
> > $("#tableid tbody tr:has(td.someclass:contains(mytext))").dosomething
> > ();
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