Previously, I wrote about how to use jQuery to locate and hide a text field on a form. I didn’t care for the specific approach (I was chaining parents – that’s simply isn’t done these days, at least in families of quality).

This is a pretty terrible approach I think because it’s extremely dependent on the very specific structure of this form. When SharePoint 2010 comes out, this whole structure could change and break this approach. What I really want to do is craft a jQuery selector that is along the lines of “find me all the TR’s (and only TR tags) that have somewhere in their child elements an input field whose title = Hide Me!”. I starting from the bottom and moving up. Assuming I figure this out, I’ll post an updated “quick and easy’ post

I started playing around with jQuery yesterday. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, ever since Paul Grenier started writing his series about jQuery for End Users at the venerable www.endusersharepoint.com web site. As I use it, I hope to add a series of “Quick and Easy” posts like this one. This post describes how to set a known text field’s value to anything you want.