On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, aly <he...@digitalnature.ro> wrote:
>
>
> thanks for your reply.
> html is something like:
>
> <div class="mydivcontainer">
> ...
> <div class="mydiv">
> ...
> </div>
> </div>
>
> there are more elements where I placed the (...) dots, but I guess it
> doesn't matter since parent('.mydivcontainer') should locate the
> target element.
> and yes, what I am trying to do is move .mydiv and its contents at the
> beginning of .mydivcontainer (just after <div
> class="mydivcontainer">).
>
> I don't undestand why my 2nd example doesn't work.
> that function should traverse each element with the .mydivclass and
> clone it in .mydivcontainer, then remove the original element. or am I
> wrong?
prependTo already takes care of removing the original, and it returns the
same element to you in its new location, and you're then removing it.
- Richard
>
>
>
> On 19 Mai, 15:31, "Richard D. Worth" <rdwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And what is it you're trying to do exactly? I have to say I was caught
> > curious by your subject 'Move element to parent div'. Where would an
> element
> > be, if not inside its parent? Are you just trying to move it up to be the
> > first child of the parent, by prependTo?
> >
> > I wonder if in the first case, you're creating a bunch of clones, by a
> > .prependTo(selector) with a selector that matches more than one element,
> > then removing the original. And in the second case, you're moving the one
> > element, then removing it. I haven't tested, but this is my best guess
> just
> > looking at your code, and without seeing your html.
> >
> > - Richard
> >
> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Richard D. Worth <rdwo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > What does your html look like? Is .mydivcontainer the immediate parent
> of
> > > .mydiv?
> >
> > > - Richard
> >
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:20 AM, aly <he...@digitalnature.ro> wrote:
> >
> > >> I'm trying to move a set of divs into their parent elements.
> >
> > >> Currently I'm using:
> > >> jQuery('.mydiv').each(function(){ jQuery(this).prependTo
> > >> ('.mydivcontainer').remove(); });
> >
> > >> this works somehow, but the problem is that all elements on the page
> > >> with class .mydiv are inserted into each .mydivcontainer element.
> >
> > >> to avoid this, I tried prepending .mydiv to its parent;
> > >> jQuery('.mydiv').each(function(){ jQuery(this).prependTo(jQuery
> > >> (this).parent('.mydivcontainer')).remove(); });
> >
> > >> but for some weird reason it doesn't work, .mydiv doesn't show up :(
> >
> > >> can anyone help me with this?
> > >> thanks :D
>
