Thank you both for your suggestions.
I think for my purposes (a simple image gallery with next prev -
looping from last to first and vice versa) then kangax's suggestion is
all that I need at this time.
I will certainly look indepth at Matt's solution as there are some
good ideas there that I can learn from.
Regards,
Rob
On Sep 10, 4:07 pm, kangax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 10:20 am, Matt Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > firstDescendant is a convienence function for referencing the
> > "firstChild" where its an immediate descendant of the element. At
> > first I thought you could just bust out with ele.descendants().last()
> > but in researching this idea it would potentially give you unexpected
> > results. As descendants() grabs all children and grandchildren the
> > last object on that array could very well be a deeply nested element
> > and not particularly the lastChild element reference that you were
> > looking for. If this method is something you would really value you
> > could simply add it yourself using the Element.addMethods method, it
> > might look something like this.
>
> > Element.addMethods({
> > lastDescendant: function(element) {
> > element = $(element).lastChild;
> > while (element && element.nodeType != 1) element =
> > element.previousSibling;
> > return $(element);
> > }
>
> > });
>
> A less performant, but shorter version would be:
>
> $(element).childElements().last();
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