Hi,
Perhaps your missing a space? $('this h1'), or $('this ' + 'h1')
What I don't understand is, why are you trying to concatenate two
strings when you don't need to?
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Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva Sagar.
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 22:05 -0700, Warfang wrote:
> I'm pretty new to Javascript/ jQuery, so this is really bugging me.
>
> I'm trying to get the height of an h1 that is a sibling to this. The
> value for the variable h1Height, however, returned as null in the
> console in Firebug. Perplexed, I tried console.logging ('this'+'+h1')
> to see what it was interpreted as. It brought back this+h1, which
> should select an h1 adjacent to this (which is a div).
>
> Javascript
> h1Height = $('this'+'h1').height();
>
> What went wrong?
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