On 25/01/07, Blair McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try
> $("#menu li.actif ~ li")
>
> Translation:
> Find an element with id menu (id by itself is faster than id with tag), then
> find a descendent LI with class actif, and return the preceding element if
> it is a LI.
>
> Blair
$("#menu li.actif").prev("li") should work as well.
>
>
> On 1/25/07, Stéphane Nahmani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I have written a simple menu in the most basic way i could: just an
> unordered
> > list, with only the active tab getting a class="active".
> >
> > I am adding the correct styles to the first and last tabs with the :first
> and
> > :last selector. Works just fine.
> >
> > The last thing i need is to be able to identify the tab that comes before
> the
> > active tab, if any. I have tried the axis selector for the preceding
> sibling
> > shown in the doc : $("//div ~ form")
> >
> > However, that syntax is a bit foreign to me, and it unsurprisingly did not
> work
> > when i adpated it like this :
> >
> > $("//ul#menu li ~ .actif").addClass("preactif");
> >
> > (To be more precise, i want to select the "ul#menu li" that comes right
> before
> > the "ul#menu li.actif").
> > I have tried various combinations, but to no avail.
> >
> > Help most welcome as always. Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Stéphane Nahmani / sholby
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.sholby.net/
> >
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