Oops. Got tripped up by this last week too...
David
Karl Rudd wrote:
tbody:first-child doesn't select the "first child of the tbody" it
says "select the tbody that is the 'first-child' of it's parent".
So what you are actually wanting to say is:
$("#myTable tbody tr:first-child")
Which is "select the tr that is the first child of tbody"
http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/firstChild
Karl Rudd
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Alex Wibowo <alexwib...@gmail.com> wrote:
sorry.... i should say....
"how does that explain the behaviour when there's no thead" (because it
works when thead doesnt exist)
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Alex Wibowo <alexwib...@gmail.com> wrote:
how does that explain the behaviour when there's thead then??
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:47 PM, David Muir <davidkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
It's because tbody:first-child is already selecting the tr, so you're
effectively doing:
tbody tr tr (where the first tr is the first child of tbody)
Cheers,
David
Alex Wibowo wrote:
Hi all,
I have a code that counts the number of rows in a table...
the table looks like:
<table id="myTable">
<thead>
...
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
....
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
and my jquery looks like:
$("#myTable tbody:first-child tr").length;
strange enough.... that always returns 0.
but if i remove the thead from the table... then it will return the
correct number of rows..
or alternatively, i can keep the thead, but use the following instead:
$("#myTable tbody tr").length;
i.e. without specifying first-child.
Can anyone explain this behaviour?
THanks a lot!
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Best regards,
WiB
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