Nth « dom « jQuery Q&A

1. jQuery navigating the dom with Each and Nth Child    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to navigate through each of the tr element and select the 5th td element then store the value in it. What am I doing wrong?

 $("table tbody tr td ...

2. Is there a way to combine $(this) with :nth-child?    stackoverflow.com

I'm in the middle of an .each iteration and wanted to call out the 2nd or 3rd child for the each..but cant make it work.

alert($(this + ' :nth-child(2)').attr('id'));

3. jQuery difference between :eq() and :nth-child()    stackoverflow.com

In jQuery, what are some of the key differences between using :eq() and :nth-child() to select any elements ? Also in general, for the starting index, in which case does it start ...

4. How to find nth parent of an element using jquery    stackoverflow.com

I want to find the nth parent element of an given element and access the attributes of parent.

<div id='parent1'><br/>
  <div id='parent2'><br/>
       <span><p id='element1'>Test</p></span><br/>
  ...