Question

Having a hard time to grab a title from a list, here is my code.

  <ul class="selected connected-list ui-sortable" style="height: 170px;">
    <li class="ui-helper-hidden-accessible" style=""/>
    <li class="ui-state-default ui-element" title="80 Days" style="display: list-item;"><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-arrowthick-2-n-s"/>80 Days<a class="action" href="#"></a>
    </li>
  </ul>

The first list item will not have a tile so it will always be the second list item.

$("ul.selected").closest("li").attr("title");

But getting no result. Hope you can advise !!

Thank you in advance if you can

Answer 1

$('ul.selected li:eq(1)').attr('title');

closest doesn’t work because it searches in the the element itself and it’s parents, and you need to search inside it’s childrens.

eq matches a single element by its index, and is zero based.