[jQuery] Help Traversing

2007-08-26 Thread atomicnuke
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[jQuery] Help Traversing

2007-08-26 Thread atomicnuke
I hope this isn't a double post, my other one was over 12hrs ago and it never displayed. I'm trying to get the text out of a p tag, I can do this if I set an id name, but I don't want to id everything, since with jQuery I don't need to. The premise is I'm clicking a link and it gets two values