Select within context behavior

[Don Harden]

First of all let me say many thanks and much high praise for jQuery
Editable Combobox and it creator, Lukasz Rajchel.

To save some parsing by jQuery I wanted to select by class context
with in a larger div.

These worked as expected:
$('#DBaccess').jec({ ... })
$('select').jec({ ... })
$('select', $('#DBaccess')).jec({ ... })
$('.JEC').jec({ ... })

But these did not work.
$('#DBaccess', $('.JEC')).jec({ ... })
$('select', $('.JEC')).jec({ ... })

So I guess either I'm doing something wrong or I can't select by class
context with in my DBaccess div and I also can not parse only <select>
tags for the JEC class.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Don

[Thane]

I've just tried something similar and it worked fine.

Are you sure your selectors are correct?

Perhaps $('#DBaccess', $('.JEC')) or $('select', $('.JEC')) doesn't
match any valid select element?

Try executing your selectors in console and check if they are correct.

[Don Harden]

You're right Thane.  These selectors don't select anything.

    $('#DBaccess', $('.JEC'))

    $('select', $('.JEC'))

I just don't understand why not.   The   <div id="DBaccess"> contains a form with <select class="JEC" ...

So I thought the above two selectors would work.

Got my script working with $('select', $('#Form_ID')

Don

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[Thane]

They don't work because the second argument ($('.JEC') in your case)
should be more generic then the first one. This construct allow you to
speed up selectors because they don't have to work on entire DOM tree
and they can limit their searches to a part of it.

So this should work for you $('.JEC', $('#DBacess'));

[Don Harden]

Thanks for the explanation.  Seems I had my selection logic backwards.

Don