On 2/21/07, Sam Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following up from a question I asked yesterday, I wanted to get the
closest parent DIV given an arbitrary nested element. But when I request
the ".id" of that element, i repeatedly get an "undefined" message, even
though this call, "$(this).parent("div.sidebarToDo")" yields an object.
>
> $('#todoList a.deleteTDItem').each(function(index) {
> var divId = $(this).parent("div.sidebarToDo
").id;
> alert(divId); // alwasy gives
'undefined'
> $(this).click = function() { $('#' +
divId).remove(); };
> });
>
> This is the HTML in question:
>
> <div class="sidebarToDo" width="100%" id="dToDo3">
> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
> <tr>
> <td><input id="cbTdId3" onClick="var textDecor = (this.checked ?
'line-through' : 'none'); $('#textId3').css('text-decoration', textDecor);"
type="checkbox" id="tdcb3" ></td>
>
> <td id="textId3" class="sidebarText" style="text-decoration:
none">Start Work</td>
> <td align="right"><a class="editTDItem" href='#'><img
src="images/edit.gif" alt="Edit" border="0"></a></td>
> <td align="right"><a class="deleteTDItem"
href="javascript:toggleDiv('dToDo3');"><img src="images/deleteLink.gif"
alt="Delete" border="0"></a></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </div>
>
> Thanks, - Dave
You can get the id via attr:
$(this).parent("div.sidebarToDo").attr("id")
To spell it out a little more clearly, the API for attributes has changed in
jQuery 1.0.3+ and shortcuts like .id() no longer work
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