have you tried
var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('tr').find('td:first').text();
alert(myText);
The TR is really the parent of the TDs, not the table.
On Jun 3, 7:33 am, jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mauricio, your code basically works fine on a simple test page. But
> there is something about my set-up that makes the bit about
> ".parents('table')" fail. My page still has the same exact element
> structure with 2 differences; there are 52 "tr"s in the table; also,
> all the elements (tables, trs, tds, divs...what have you,) are all
> full of styles, attributes, and onclick events to a fairly large
> extent.
>
> Other variations and combination of jQuery functions fail as well in
> getting the parent of this div in my page.
>
> I guess I'll just keep on truckin'.
> jake
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva
>
> <css.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > var myText = $('#knowndiv').parents('table').find('td:first').text();
> > alert(myText);
>
> > Maurício
>
> > -----Mensagem Original-----
> > De: con-man-jake
> > Para: jQuery (English)
> > Enviada em: terça-feira, 2 de junho de 2009 16:38
> > Assunto: [jQuery] text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get it
>
> > Still a newbie.
> > I have this:
>
> > <table>
> > <tr>
>
> > <td>
> > text I want to get
> > </td>
>
> > <td>
> > </td>
>
> > <td>
> > <div id="knowndiv"></div>
> > </td>
>
> > <tr>
> > </table>
>
> > If I have the div with id of "knowndiv" as an object (call it "obj"),
> > How do I get the text inside the first <td>?
