Question

Got a small confusing issue with jQuery and selecting/styling a column in a table.

The following code works:

   $(function() {
      $("table").delegate('th.selcol','click', function(e) {
         var iCol = $(this).parent().children().index(this)+1;
         $("table tr td:nth-child(10)").each(function () {
            $(this).toggleClass("colhighlight");
         });
      });
   });

But this code, changing the nth-child(10) to nth-child(iCol) produces an error
“uncaught exception: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: :nth-child”

   $(function() {
      $("table").delegate('th.selcol','click', function(e) {
         var iCol = $(this).parent().children().index(this)+1;
         $("table tr td:nth-child(iCol)").each(function () {
            $(this).toggleClass("colhighlight");
         });
      });
   });

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

     $("table tr td:nth-child(" + iCol + ")").each(function () {
        $(this).toggleClass("colhighlight");
     });

nth-child expects an integer, not a string, so you can use concatenation to solve your problem.