Undefined response with multiple find()s on the same object

[garytalmes@…]

I'm using jQuery 1.6.1 (minified) on Firefox 4 (Mac, Snow Leopard).

Say I do this:

$("#mydiv").find("ul.firstlist li a.current").attr("myname");

This yields the expected result.

But now on the next line I do this:

$("#mydiv").find("ul.secondlist li a.current").attr("myname");

This yields "undefined" every time, even though the html is correct and the values are there. It seems that performing a second find() on the same object does not work. And it's not just with attribute calls. I tried applying CSS and that did not work. I also tried to see if I was able to reference $("#mydiv") at all, and I could not.

Workaround: prior to the first find() I make a copy of $("#mydiv") and then perform the second find() on the copy.

[ajpiano]

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[rwaldron]

Works fine:  http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/bwUFD/

[dmethvin]

Closer to the description, but yeah it works for me too:

 http://jsfiddle.net/dmethvin/bwUFD/1/

garytalmes, this is why a test case is so important. Now two people have taken the time to reproduce the problem and failed.