As an aside, you can use a different syntax for .find() which last I
knew was a bit faster and less characters:
$(this).find('.someclass')
is equivilent to:
$('.someclass', $(this))
On Mar 17, 8:58 pm, "so.phis.ti.kat" <see.marlon....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I started to use FF's console to see more details
> of the object(s)
> Here's my code:
>
> $(document).ready(function (){
> $("li.page").click(function (event) {
> var secondList = "ul.categories";
> if ($(this).find(secondList).length > 0) {
>
> $(this).children(secondList).slideToggle("slow");
> }
> });
>
> });
>
> On Mar 17, 12:18 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > if ($(this).find("ul")) { ...
>
> > will always return a jQuery object and so evaluate to true; you need
> > to check the length:
>
> > if ($(this).find("ul").length>0) { ...
>
> > On Mar 17, 8:57 am, "so.phis.ti.kat" <see.marlon....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > > I tried doing a search and found some possible solutions but was not
> > > able to get it working for my markup so I am wondering if the
> > > following can be done and how.
>
> > > Markup
> > > <ul class="pages">
> > > <li class="page">
> > > <a class="current" title="Edit index" href="#"> index</a>
> > > </li>
> > > <li class="page">
> > > <a title="Edit menu" href="#"> menu</a>
> > > <ul id="menu" class="categories">...</ul>
> > > </li>
> > > <li class="page">
> > > <a title="Edit menu" href="#"> catering</a>
> > > <ul id="catering" class="categories">...</ul>
> > > </li>
> > > </ul>
>
> > > So I want to say, when you click on any <li class="page"></li>, look
> > > to see if that <li> has a child <ul>... thats it for now. I later want
> > > to use the effects to "show" and "hide" the contents of that <li>.
>
> > > jQuery
> > > $(document).ready(function (){
> > > $("li.page").click(function (event) {
> > > if ($(this).find("ul")) {
> > > alert("yes");
> > > } else {
> > > alert("no");
> > > }
> > > });
>
> > > });
>
> > > Thoughts? Is there a better way or better functions to use?
> > > I tried find and children.
