parents() worked, thank you. also the new closest() worked. what's the exact difference between those two?
why classes instead of ids? <div class="A"> is better than <div id="A">? why? performance of jquery selectors? On May 19, 1:53 pm, aquaone <aqua...@gmail.com> wrote: > A <div> will never be a parent of a <td>. It will be an ancestor but not a > direct parent. .parents() > <http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/parents#expr>will look for > ancestors. > In other news, please use classes on your <div>s instead of pattern matching > the id. It's better for a variety of reasons. > > aquaone > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:46, elubin <elu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I am trying to find the <div> parent of a <td> tag. In the following > > code, I do not understand why the alert shows 0 instead of 1?? > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > $(function(){ > > var x = $('#row_3'); > > var y = x.parent('div[id^=idSection_]'); > > alert( y.length ); > > }); > > </script> > > > <div id="idSection_A" style="display: block;"> > > <table><tr><td id="row_1">eric 1</td></tr></table> > > </div> > > <div id="idSection_B" style="display: block;"> > > <table><tr><td id="row_2">eric 2</td></tr></table> > > </div> > > <div id="idSection_C" style="display: block;"> > > <table><tr><td id="row_3">eric 3</td></tr></table> > > </div>
