selectors

jQuery: Getting the two last list items?

I want to apply a special class to the two last list items in an unordered list with jQuery. Like this: <ul> <li>Lorem</li> <li>ipsum</li> <li>dolor</li> <li class="special">sit</li> <li class="special">amet</li> </ul> How to? Should I use :eq somehow? Thanks in advance Pontus ...

addClass every nth

I have a list of elements that I want to style in 3 different ways. I want every 3rd list item to have the same class throughout the whole list. For example: <li class="A">Some Content</li> <li class="B">Some Content</li> <li class="C">Some Content</li> <li class="A">Some Content</li> <li class="B">Some Content</li> <li class="C">Some...

Is there a CSS selector to select text (inline blocks) within a rectangular box?

Can a CSS rule select the portion of a box which contains text (or an inline block)? For example, an HTML fragment like <p>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog</p> might be laid out like this: +--------------------------+ | The quick brown fox | | jumped over the | | lazy dog | +-------------------...

are these 2 css selectors the same?

1.parent > son 2.parent>son the only difference is whether there is space before and after ">", and how is this kind of selector supported by browsers? ...

Selecting empty text input using jQuery

How do I identify empty textboxes using jQuery? I would like to do it using selectors if it is at all possible. Also, I must select on id since in the real code where I want to use this I don't want to select all text inputs. In my following two code examples the first one accurately displays the value typed into the textbox "txt2" by t...

jQuery Select 2 Divs Up

Hi All, I'm a bit confused on how to properly select a parent item, that is 2 DIV's up. In other words, my HTML looks like this: <div>Folder</div> <div class="file_info"> <a href="test.jpg">Test File</a> </div> Here's my current jQuery: $("a[href$='.jpg']").addClass("Image"); However, I don't want to add the class to t...

How can I get the text of the selected item from a dropdown using jQuery?

I need the text from the selected item in a drop down. Thanks in advance! ...

What is a bad selector?

In the error console concerning a math lab program, there is a continuous error reporting about a bad selector. What is a bad selector? ...

jQuery selector to obtain li object from specific unordered list

I'm trying to obtain a specific li element from a unordered list. I'm doing it this way: var listItem = $('ul.selectedItems').filter(list[i].ID); Any idea of why this isn't working? ...

A combination of AND and OR in Jquery selectors.

Hi all. I have a jquery selector with following syntax. $('input[type=image]').not(".xyzClass").click(function{//some functionality}) So this puts a specific click functionality for all the components which are of type image and does not have class "xyzClass". *I have modified the question to reflect latest changes, some of the answ...

jQuery Selection Problem

In the following code, how do I select all the <tr> elements that have a <td> with an image that ends in cancelled.png? I am at a loss... <table> <tr> <----- select this whole tr <td> <img src="/images/icons/invoice-cancelled.png" alt="cancelled" /> <a href='/orders/invoice.aspx?invoiceid=63'>X1087</a...

Can a C function be used as a selector in Cocoa?

I want to start a new thread using a C function, not an objective-C method. I tried [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector: @selector(func) toTarget: nil withObject: id(data)]; where I have void func(void *data) { // ... } and data is a void *, but I get a runtime crash in objc_msgSend, called from -[NSThread initWithTarget:selector...

Selecting li from unordered list using ul and li id's

I'd like to obtain a li item from an unordered list using the id attribute of both elements as part of the selector. This is an example of how I made it work using the ul css class: var listItem = $('ul.selectedItems li#' + opt.list[i].ID); I tried to use the following approach with no luck: var listItem = $("#" + opt.name).childs.f...

Why does my jQuery selector select all anchors inside the list element?

Been struggling with this simple selector problem a couple of hours now and must be missing something obvious. I have a <ul> in which some <li>s have nested <ul>s. Each <li> contains a link and when this is clicked I want to execute a function (rather than navigate), but importantly, this should only happen for the links contained in the...

jQuery Selectors in list <li>

Can somebody advise me with jQuery selectors. I have a HTML list (see below) with four flag images in it. When a user rolls over a flag for example italy, I want it to fade out all the other three flags to 50% opacity. <ul id="flags"> <li id="German"><img src="images/flag_german.jpg" /></li> <li id="Italian"><img src="images/fl...

jQuery: get immediate next element after the current element

Hi i need set focus to the element that is immediate next(and in other case immediate prev ) to the current element eg <li>item1</li> <- prev element (get this element) <li>item1</li><- current element <li>item1</li> <- next element (get this element) <li>item1</li> this is what i used var curr = (event.target).next()...

jQuery selector performance

I'm having huge variations in performance depending on how I express my selectors. For example, look at these 2 selectors, which select exactly the same elements: A) someTableRow.find("td.someColumnClass").find("span.editMode").find("input") B) someTableRow.find("td.someColumnClass span.editMode input") I would expect to B) to be fast...

can I put an objective-C selector in a struct?

I was wanting to associate a set of rectangles with corresponding actions, so I tried to do struct menuActions { CGRect rect; SEL action; }; struct menuActions someMenuRects[] = { { { { 0, 0 }, {320, 60 } }, @selector(doSomething) }, { { { 0, 60}, {320, 50 } }, @selector(doSomethingElse) }, }; but I get the error "ini...

Is there an advantage to using very specific selectors in CSS?

I understand that in jQuery, it's advantageous to be more specific when using selectors so that jQuery doesn't have to traverse the entire DOM to find what you're looking for. For example, $('span.description') is better than just $('.description') if I know that the description class is only ever applied to <span> elements. Is this the...

Array of IDs - how to select with JQuery?

I have an array of element identifiers, coming back from some server-side validation. The IDs aren't prefixed with a '#'. Rather than going through the array and prefixing a # to each member, is there jquery means of directly selecting all elements by their IDs? ...