Thanks, I had started (and still am) working along the lines of getParent() but hadn't quite got there yet :)
"By the way the html is invalid " Opps, I missed out the opening and closing <dl> tags in the mooshell snippet (case of trimming it too much), but having nested <dl>s is ok as far as I know. Thanks again. On 11 nov, 00:14, "Steve Onnis" <[email protected]> wrote: > Give this a go > > http://mooshell.net/zLMKR/2 > > By the way the html is invalid > > Its.. > > <dl> > <dt></dt> > <dd></dd> > </dl> > > http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_dl.asp > > -----Original Message----- > From: cbolson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 9:27 AM > To: MooTools Users > Subject: [Moo] select previous element in the document > > Is there any method for selecting the previous element in the page to > the one that has been clicked? > > I thought that getPrevious() would do it but it actually only works on > previous siblings (as per the docs). > > To make my question clearer I have set up a very simple example in > mooshell:http://mooshell.net/zLMKR/ > > Hopefully from that example you can see what I am trying to do. > > Thanks in advance for any help :) > > Chris
