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Problem getting parent value

in Using jQuery • 13 years ago

Hi I have the following table

<table>
        <tr>
                <td><input /></td>
                <td><select> </select><a id="link"></a></td>
        </tr>
</table>

I'd like to get the value of the input and select elements when I click the "a" tag with the parents method?, I tried:

        var input = $(this).parents('td input').val();
        var select = $(this).parents('td select').val();

But I get "undefined", any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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peolanha

Re: Problem getting parent value

13 years ago

I'd do:

var $parent = $(this).closest('tr'),
$input = $parent.find('input'),
$select = $parent.find('select');

vengiss

Re: Re: Problem getting parent value

13 years ago

No luck :(

Now it doesn't output anything, tried using:

$(this).closest('td select').val();

No luck either, same output "undefined". Looks as if its not getting the correct element, is there a way to get the closests element no matter what it is to output it and have an idea of whats the script getting? Ttied:

$(this).closest().tagName;

But still outputting "undefined...

PD: I found that doing:

$(this).parents('td:first').attr("id");

Outputs the correct id of the first td, but when I do:

$(this).parents('td:first select').val();

It outputs a number 2 which isnt the correct value of the selected item (this number happens to be the value of the very first select element in my app, I don't know why "td:first" stops correctly at the first td element and "td:first select" goes to the very first select item on my page).

FIXED: Had to do it this way:

var dd = $(this).parents('td:first');
dd.children('select').val();

Don't know why it didn't work the other way though..

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