Nevermind. Sat down with jQuery in Action and found two
solutions. .find() and adding a parameter to $(). Funny I never did
that before in jQuery.
On Nov 9, 9:22 am, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a mostly-jQuery, sometimes Dojo user. I just came off a Dojo
> contract and one thing I ended up using a lot was Dojo's ability to do
> a query starting at a given node (subtree) of the DOM.
>
> Now I'm on a jQuery project and I find that I don't know how to do
> that in jQuery. Suppose I have done a query, gotten back, say, 8
> nodes. After some processing I know that I want to do another query
> off a certain one of those nodes. In Dojo, I supply another argument
> which makes Dojo Query from that node instead of the whole document.
> Is there a way in jQuery?
>
> Suppose I've done this: nodes=$(".monkeys") and I want to do a $
> (".howler") off of just nodes[3] (or $(".monkeys")[3]).
>
> Seems simple, but the solution eludes me.
