Thanks for your reply. The output of
.css ("background");
is empty.
Also changed the css attribute as 'background-color', it still returns
'transparent'.
Thanks,
John
On Jan 11, 11:03 am, Charlie <charlie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> appears you are using 2 different css attributes. 'background' and
> 'background-color'
> try changing style to:
> .content .division .category.selected {
> background-color: red;
> }
> or see what happens in jQuery with.css ("background");
> John wrote:Hi, I used jQuery 1.3.2 and Firefox for the following html <html>
> <head> <style type="text/css"> .content .division .category.selected {
> background: red; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="categories"> <div
> class="content"> <div class="body"> <ul id="category-list"> <li
> class="division"> <ul> <li class="category selected"> <div class="title"> <a
> href="/suv" class="category- suv">SUVs (6)</a> </div> </li> <li
> class="category category_69564"> <div class="title"> <a href="/4by4"
> class="category- general">4x4 (6)</a> </div> </li> <li class="category
> category_73293"> <div class="title"> <a href="/hybrid"
> class="category-hybrid">Hybrid</a> </div> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div>
> </div> </div> </body> </html> I used the following css command to get back
> the background color: $("#category-list > li.division:eq(0) ul > li:eq(0)
> a").css ("background-color"); but it always returned the value "transparent"
> instead of the "red" color rgb(255,0,0). I also tried "backgroundColor" and
> it did not work either ("transparent"). How to get back the correct
> background color? Thanks in advance, John
