Nope, that isn't it. My example is simplified, and the target comes an
event triggered elsewhere. So target is just a reference to a DOM
element, and can't be replaced with some selector.
Jörn
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:46 PM, David Zhou <da...@nodnod.net> wrote:
>
> Isn't that basically:
>
> if ($('.container a:first').length)
> $('.container').css('background-color', 'red');
>
> Unless I misunderstand what you're asking for?
>
> -- dz
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Jörn Zaefferer
> <joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to solve the follow selector problem: Assuming two
>> container elements that both have arbitrary descendents. Given a
>> jQuery object containing these containers and one descendent of any of
>> these, whats the most effecient way to find the correct parent
>> element? Neither parents() nor closest() helps, as there is no
>> sufficient simple selector available.
>> In other words, I want to filter a selection by a descendent.
>>
>> My naiive implementation goes through all descendents, which isn't
>> really acceptable: http://jsbin.com/uhama/edit
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Jörn
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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