Question

I have the following markup:

<table class="dogs">
    <tr>
        <td> <input class="name"> </td>
        etc.

I’m trying to select the input element using the following statement:

$('table.dogs > input.name')

However, I get no results. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I believe with that syntax you’d be looking for a direct child of table, when you should be looking for a direct child of td. Try:

$('table.dogs td > input.name')

You really don’t need the > in that case though.