Ok this is a general question about how to solve this issue, not to find some work around for the example given.
Lets say I have a $(this) object and it is a select, if I want to select the selected option and I had an id I could just bust a
$('#id option:selected')
game over.
but with a this I can’t go $(this+' option:selected') or anything like that.
I am not so concerned with selecting the option:selected in the example so I don’t want to know a workaround solution for this instance.
What I want to know is in general how you combine the subselectors like :has or option:selected with a $(this) situation.
Thanks.
By using the optional context parameter: