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domino
domino

Reputation: 7345

which jquery selector to do this?

<div id="m101">
    <table class="tablec" width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><a href="#"><span class="name">My Name</span></a></td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td><a href="#"><span class="clickme">clickme</span></a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>

Which selector should I use to capture the content of "name" if clickme is clicked? There are more than one of those tables with the same classes, but the surrounding divs are unique. The name is different each time.

I've been experimenting the with parent, parents and closest functions so far without luck. 

 $(".clickme").click(function(){
    var name = $(this).closest('.name').text();
alert(name);
 });

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (5)

arun nair
arun nair

Reputation: 3683

Simplest of answers -

$(document).ready(function(){
$('.clickme').click(function(){
    var getName = $('.name').text();
    alert(getName);
});
});

Upvotes: 0

James Jithin
James Jithin

Reputation: 10565

This did the work for me

function() {
    $(".clickme").click(
        function(e) {
            alert($(this).parents("div").find(".name").html());
        }
    );
}

Upvotes: 1

JJJ
JJJ

Reputation: 33163

You can traverse the tree up until you hit a <table>:

var name = $( this ).closest( 'table' ).find( '.name' ).text();

Upvotes: 1

detaylor
detaylor

Reputation: 7280

You are not able to select the .name using closest() as it is not an ancestor. You would need to select a common ancestor e.g. the table and then work back down the tree to the .name element.

$(".clickme").click(function(){
  var table = $(this).closest("table");
  var name =  table.find('.name').text();
  alert(name);
 });

You could have this in a single line using

$(".clickme").click(function(){
  var name =  $(this).closest("table").find('.name').text();
  alert(name);
 });

Upvotes: 1

DavidGouge
DavidGouge

Reputation: 4623

Would something like this do the trick?

$(".name", $(this).closest("div")).text()

Working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/44re8/

Upvotes: 2

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