They're identical. John coded parents(), and then for semantic
correctness and compatibility with XSLT added the ancestors() alias.
Corey
On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Erik Beeson wrote:
> Not if you have well formatted tables. There should be a TD between
> the A and TR. You could do .parents('tr'), which is the same as
> ancestors.
>
> Not to hijack this thread, but maybe someone who is more familiar
> could share with us which function is preferred, parents or ancestors?
>
> --Erik
>
> On 11/27/06, Brandon Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On
> 11/27/06, Bruce MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Erik,
> >
> > Unfortunately your line of code hid all the rows in the table,
> including
> > the one that was clicked. If I just wanted to hide the row that was
> > clicked, how would your line be altered?
>
> You could try to just call .parent('tr') instead of ancestors.
>
> --
> Brandon Aaron
>
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