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Asked: 2026-05-22T17:28:19+00:00

I am trying to target and eventually style a string, in this examle BLA,

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I am trying to target and eventually style a string, in this examle BLA, in an HTML page with many tested tables.

For example HTML page:

<table>
<tr>
<td><table><div><tr><td>BLA</td></tr></div></table></td>
</tr>

And the jquery script I use:

$("td:contains('BLA')");

to do it, but I see that ALL td’s are selected.. How can I just get the first td, without all the ancestors?..
And if this is possible, how can I add a class to the first ancestor when going up the DOM tree? (and just this one)

Thank you community

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you describe is the last td and not the first since they are returned in DOM hierarchy order.

    $('td:contains("BLA"):not("td td")').addClass('whatever');

    demo at http://jsfiddle.net/92Xj2/

    Update after clarification in comment

    $('td:not(:has(td)):contains("BLA")').addClass('whatever');

    new demo http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/92Xj2/4/

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