hi Scott,
Cheers..thats pretty cool. One more thing actually..I need the element to
be a div..how do I add this to the selector..I actually managed to write
something using recursion yesterday but its pretty nasty..i would much
prefer to use something like what you've give me.
function findClass(el) {
var $myel = $(el).prev();
var $class = ''
if ($myel.is('div')) {
if ($myel.attr('class') == '') {
$class = findClass($myel);
} else {
$class = $myel.attr('class');
}
} else {
$class = findClass($myel);
}
return $class;
}
thanks for your help
Scott Sauyet-2 wrote:
>
> On Dec 7, 10:23 am, lennon1980 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I want to find all previous elements in the DOM (not parent elements) of
>> element called 'feature' [ ... ]
>> But I want to find all previous divs that have a css class assinged to
>> them.
>> the first previous div it finds I want to be able to retrieve the class
>> name
>> of that dic in a string.
>
> Will this do what you want?:
>
> var item = $("#feature").prevAll("[class]:first");
> if (item) alert(item.attr("class"));
>
> You can pass a selector into prevAll. Here we select only those
> elements that contain an attribute named "class" and then choose just
> the first one of these. ('First' here does not mean document order
> but something more like 'closest'.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Scott
>
>
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