Dan,
>I tried $('table#my_id/tr') but that doesn't find anything.
Try:
$('table#my_id tr')
- or -
$('table#my_id/tbody/tr')
>Then, I tried $('table#my_id').children(). That returns this
>mysterious <tbody> element. This element contains, for its own
>children, the children of the original table. There is not tbody
>element to be found in the html of my webpage.
>
>Now, as a workaround, I can just call .children() twice. But, does
>anyone understand what's going on? What is this tbody element?
The <tbody /> element should be explicitly declared in your HTML, but a lot
of developer exclude it. When it's not explicitly declared, the browsers
will automatically insert the tbody node into the DOM. That's why it's
showing up.
You can read more about <tbody /> here:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tbody.asp
-Dan
