Thanks John,

I thought it might have been the case, the documentation is a little
ambiguous.

It would be nice to see a function like $(selector).after(filter) that finds
the next matching element (I know that after is already used for DOM
manipulation) and a similar one for prev()

Cheers,
Evan


John Resig wrote:
> 
> .next() and .prev() only work with the next (or previous) /immediate/
> element. In your example, the next element is actually a <br/> - which
> your filter doesn't match.
> 
> Currently there isn't a way to do what you want (easily) in jQuery.
> I'd imagine it being something like .nextClosest("div.myDiv"). The
> next best thing that I can think of would be to do:
> 
> $(this).next().next("div.myDiv")
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> --John
> 
> On 3/18/07, EvanT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've come across what is possibly a bug (or unexpected behaviour) when
>> using
>> next().
>>
>> I have an example page setup here: http://fapdragon.com/test/test.html
>>
>> As far as I can see, the filter for next() is not being applied and it
>> always returns the next DOM element.
>>
>> Can anyone comment on this or should I log a ticket for it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Evan
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