Hello all, I'm trying to do my frist steps with jQuery but I have some trouble to understand how to find a list of child elements from a div parent element. I'm used to work with ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 so i could mistake some concept, like what is the better way to randomize a sequence of div elements with jQuery!
I have this simple portion of HTML code:
<div class="band">
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>John</li>
<li>Lennon</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>Paul</li>
<li>McCartney</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>George</li>
<li>Harrison</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>Ringo</li>
<li>Starr</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
I have attempted some way to do that like map .member divs in one array and then changing the sort order but without success.
function setArrayElements (element_parent) {
var arr = [];
//alert (element_parent[0].innerHTML);
for (var i = 0; i < element_parent.children().length; i ++) {
arr.push (element_parent[i].innerHTML);
}
}
setArrayElements($(".band"));
when i attempted to alert element_parent[0] i thought to get the first child of my .member list of divs but it isn't.
if i make an alert with element_parent[0].innerHTML i see that:
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>John</li>
<li>Lennon</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>Paul</li>
<li>McCartney</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>George</li>
<li>Harrison</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>Ringo</li>
<li>Starr</li>
</ul>
</div>
Why? How can I do to get exactly one of the members like this?
<div class="member">
<ul>
<li>Paul</li>
<li>McCartney</li>
</ul>
</div>
I'm sure this should be easy but I just don't know how :(
please help
thanks
vittorio