[jQuery] Re: Problems with selectors and this keyword

[Charlie]

(this) has to stand alone, you can't use it quite the same way as parent child in your selector most common way to do it is $("this").find("td").css(......); ///looks for td's that are children of (this) or there's an abbreviated method that isn't shown in many examples $("td", this).css(...) Coxy wrote: $('.mainTable > tbody > tr').bind("mouseover", function(){ // alert('hi'); //$(this + ' > td').css('background', '#ff0000'); // Didn't work $(this + ' td').css('background', '#ff0000'); // Doesn't either }); I want to highlight td's in a row when I mouse over the TR's. I set the mouseover function using the above code. The alert works when I mouse over the row, so I then tried to select the TD children and change their bg but it then does nothing. Did I use this incorrectly? I'm new to jQuery and am still getting used to the selectors. Thanks for any advice.