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If you know the UL is going to be the next adjacent sibling, you can use .next() instead of .nextAll(). Then, instead of all those .children(), you can use .find(). Something like this should do:

1. $(this).next('ul.replies').find('textarea').val($areaValue + $username);

--Karl

Hey man that works perfect! Instead of opening a thread I figure I can just ask my next question here.

Im looking for a way that I can just target the next textarea...which is getting complicated because of where the triggers are located.

so I have:

<ul>
      <li>
               <a> Click Function </a>

                 <ul class="replies">
                        <li><a> Click Function <a></li>

                        <li><form><p><TEXTAREA /></p></form></li>
                  </ul>

      </li>
</ul>

The click functions are the Names of the user who is either in the first case starting the post, or in the second adding a reply.

So if you click either the name of the initial poster or the name of a person who repied to his post, their name would be inserted into the text-area (always the last list-item in the ul.class-replies if that helps)

getting stumped trying .parent, .parents. find and all of it! thanks again :)