this .filter works! thanks a bunch........
On Feb 11, 12:20 pm, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try doing it in two steps:
>
> $("#tableid tbody tr:has(td.someclass)").filter(':contains
> (mytext)').doSomething()
>
> On Feb 10, 7:57 pm, SteelRing <steelr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > ();
