Oliver, Yes an example of what you are trying to do would be great.
I have done a lot with my family genealogy and I currently display it using php to layout the pages. One of my future projects is to convert the genealogy application to use jQuery and ajax to build a web2 version of it. http://swoodbridge.com/family/Woodbridge/ -Steve Oliver Boermans wrote: > I'll attempt to answer Jake's question because I know the 'why' is > often more useful than the 'how'. > > I am laying out an ordered list as a family tree of sorts. This > involves setting the widths on the elements based on their > descendants. My current concept for the method requires me to break > the chain to repeat it over the whole multi-leveled list > (my family tree is rather large!). > > Repeat below until every ol with no parent ol has 'kids' (or width) set > > LI > ------------------------------ > find every li without 'kids' set in which every immediate child ol has > 'kids' set > or > does not have an immediate child ol > > compare value of 'kids' of each of its immediate child ol/s > > set 'kids' on the parent li to the largest value > or if there is no immediate child ol set 'kids' to 1 > > set width of the li to 'kids' multiplied by variable > > OL > ------------------------------ > find every ol (without 'kids' set) inside which every immediate child > li has 'kids' set > > set 'kids' on the ol to the sum of every of its immediate child li 'kids' > values > > set width of the ol to kids multiplied by variable > > ------------------------------ > > When it comes to writing jQuery selectors to match this logic - I > expect it may be more practical to test for the widths I'm setting > rather than a custom property like 'kids''? > > $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'width']").parent().not("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'width']") > > I resorted to the property as it can be a number rather than a width > value from which I would need to extract a number. e.g. '30em' > > Seems I've still got a long way to go to get this working! All > pointers are welcome! > > Cheers > Ollie 'out of his depth' Boermans > > On 31/12/06, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> easy peasy and perfectly logical.... but what is Oliver's doing? is >> the attribute assigned to the object and then lost when the current >> $() is done? it would work from one line to the next, right? > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
