BTW id attribute must be unique as i know... I know you can omit it but its
not fair.
OK. did you try to use contents( )?
something like this (untested) $('#obj').contents().filter('div').attr('id',
'Bob')?
On Jan 16, 2008 2:20 AM, Wizzud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Use find()?
> The children() function (should) return "unique immediate children"
> which won't get you your second level divs in a single call from the
> #obj level, no matter what selector you use.
>
> eg...
> var obj = $("#obj");
> obj.find(">.obj_level1>.obj_level2").attr( "id", "Bob" );
>
>
> On Jan 15, 6:03 am, Mark Lacas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to set the id of a 2nd level obj selected by class and it
> > doesn't seem to work as I thought it would.
> >
> > Unfortunately all of the level one objects get the id assignment, not
> > the level two object.
> >
> > Here it is before I do the operation:
> >
> > <div id="obj">
> > <div class="obj_level1">
> > <div class="obj_level2"></div>
> > </div>
> > <div class="obj_level1.1"></div>
> > </div>
> >
> > Then I do this:
> >
> > var obj = $("#obj");
> > //bunch of code
> > obj.children(".obj_level1 > .obj_level2").attr( "id", "Bob" );
> >
> > It ends up like this:
> >
> > <div id="obj">
> > <div id="Bob" class="obj_level1">
> > <div class="obj_level2"></div>
> > </div>
> > <div id="Bob" class="obj_level1.1"></div>
> > </div>
> >
> > Note the two divs with the same id. . .
> >
> > Do I have to use:
> >
> > obj.children(".obj_level1").children(".obj_level2").attr( "id",
> > "Bob" );
> >
> > Originally I was using:
> >
> > $("#obj > .obj_level1 > .obj_level2").attr( "id", "Bob" );
> >
> > And that worked ok, but I needed the object in a variable as I and
> > using it repeatedly and didn't want to dereference it every time I use
> > it, for speed's sake.
> >
> > Any thoughts as to the correct syntax to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ml
>
