Question

on a button click event, i want to read the value of a textbox based on a certain class. there are multiple textboxes with that class on the page so i want to grab the one that is before the button. NOTE: this is NOT directly before but i want it to search up the page until it find an instance.

i thought Prev() would do this but it doesn’t seem to work

Answer 1

$(this).prevAll('.class:first');

Use prevAll with a :first filter