[jQuery] Re: text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get it

[Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva]

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, BigAB <adamlbarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.

For information only.
I've used parents() not parent().
parents() means ancestor and table is ancestor of TDs

See: http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing

Maurício
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  -----Mensagem Original----- 
  De: Ricardo 
  Para: jQuery (English) 
  Enviada em: quarta-feira, 3 de junho de 2009 15:15
  Assunto: [jQuery] Re: text of first sibling of a parent...How do I get it



  There is no reason why you shouldn't get this working with one of the
  examples provided. For the nesting issue, filter with :first:

  $('#knowndiv').parents('tr:first').children('td:first').text();

  parents(xx:first) is similar to closest(xx), only the latter will also
  try to match the element itself.

  On Jun 3, 1:01 pm, jake dimano <jakedim...@gmail.com> wrote:
  > Yes, that is the first thing I did, to no avail. I think all I am
  > left with just trudging through this with pure javascript.
  > jake
  >
  > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, BigAB <adamlbarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
  >
  > > 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
  ...