[jQuery] Re: problem filtering out via parents() and :not()

No #detailsNavigation in your HTML.. and why not simply $
(".metaSection a").click(function(){... ? Also you can swap $thisA.is
(:not... for !$thisA.hasClass('noSwap'), much less overhead.

Despite that code looks fine, could you provide a working sample at
jsbin.com or the likes?

On May 1, 12:29 pm, pixeline <aplennev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello !
> I'm assigning a specific "swap position" behaviour on click to a list
> of links, all sitting inside a multilevel unordered list with id
> "detailsNavigation"
>
> That behaviour only concerns specific anchors and those with class
> "noSwap" shouldn't ... swap.
>
> Can you explain me why this does not work?
>
>  $("#detailsNavigation li ul li a").bind("click", function()
>           {
>                 var $thisA = $(this);
>                 var $thisLI = $thisA.parent();
>                 var $thisUL = $thisLI.parent();
>                 if ($thisUL.parents('li').is(':not("#metadesign,
> #editions, #timeline, #related")') || $thisA.is(':not(".noSwap")'))
>                 {
>                 // do that swappin' thingy
>                 }
>
> });
>
> Here is the related html:
>
>     <ul>
>         <li class="clearfix" id="metadesign">
>
>             <ul style="display: block;" class="detailsSubnav clearfix
> selected">
>                 <li class="clearfix" style="width: 100%;">
>                     <ul class="metaSection clearfix">
>                         <li class="skinColor
> metaSectionTitle">concepts</li>
>                         <li><a class="ajax noSwap" href="http://m2.lab-
> au.com/projects/f551/metadesign/concepts/8/">
>                             electrosensing</a></li>
>                     </ul>
>                     <ul class="metaSection clearfix">
>                         <li style="display: list-item;">
>                          <a class="ajax selected noSwap" href="http://
> m2.lab-au.com/projects/f551/metadesign/methods/
> referencing/">referencing</a>
>                         </li>
>                         <li class="skinColor
> metaSectionTitle">methods</li>
>                         <li class="inactive"><span
> class="inactive">Data mining</span></li>
>                     </ul>
>                 </li>
>             </ul>
>         </li>
>     </ul>
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!
>
> Alexandre