.parents() method doesnt select ':first' parent

[bixority]

alert() returns 'undefined' in 1.4.3 and correct field value in 1.4.2 without using ", form" everything works fine.

$("a[name='btn_edit'].btn.edit").click(function(event) {
        event.preventDefault();

        var form = $(this).parents('form:first');

        alert($("input[name='action']", form).val());
    });

[jitter]

Please check your posting. Some words/characters seem to be missing in this part of the post

using ", form"

As you didn't provide a test case I tried to craft one by reverse engineering your jQuery code. ​test case

But I can't reproduce the described problem under jQuery 1.4.3 in any recent browser. Please add a test case on ​http://www.jsfiddle.net which reproduces your problem and add information in which browser this happens

[snover]

Please provide a working test case.

[bixority]

Replying to jitter:

Please check your posting. Some words/characters seem to be missing in this part of the post

using ", form"

As you didn't provide a test case I tried to craft one by reverse engineering your jQuery code. ​test case

But I can't reproduce the described problem under jQuery 1.4.3 in any recent browser. Please add a test case on ​http://www.jsfiddle.net which reproduces your problem and add information in which browser this happens

My test case: ​http://www.jsfiddle.net/bixority/U8vcH/ If you will entirely remove listFormListDiv and all its children from HTML - it will work ok.

[snover]

This doesn’t have anything to do with the .parents method.

[snover]

Duplicate of #7212.