selector not working

[ctoz]

Hopefully, the last problem for a while: the function below is supposed to select a span which is the child of a class and add some text to the span.

The html looks like this:
<p class="a1">some text<span></span></p>
The class is a variable... 'a1' 'a2' etc.

function addTxt(myline) {
$(myline > span).html(' more text ');
}

called with addTxt('.a1').

Firefox is giving the error message 'span is undefined'.
There may be a clue here: if it's changed to

$(p.myline > span).html(' more text ');

the error message changes to 'p is undefined'.

I could give the spans a class, but that would make the code heavier as there are hundreds of em.

Any ideas?

[mbabuskov]

selector should be a string, you're passing '.a1' as a string, so you need to concatenate to get the complete string:

$(myline+' > span').html(' more text');

HTH

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Milan B.

[edited by: engine at 1:58 pm (utc) on Apr 15, 2011]
[edit reason] no sig files, thanks [/edit]

[ctoz]

Milan, it sure did!