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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