[solved] Iterate through "great-grandchildren" elements

Forgive me for asking a basic question, but I am a newbie and there is something I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do.

I'm working on a slide show script in Mootools 1.2. ("Why?" you ask. Because I need one that (1) accommodates multiple independent slide shows on the same page, (2) shows HTML slides and/or images, (3) offers tabbed navigation as well as previous/next buttons, and (3) degrades nicely when JS is off. There are many that have one or two of these features, but I haven't found a single one that has all four of them. If you know of one, let me know!)

The HTML for the slide shows looks like this:



In initializing the slide shows, I need to hide all of the inner <ul> tags on a page, i.e. the "div.slideShow ul li ul"s (to borrow CSS's nomenclature), except for the first slide in in each slide show (on a page with more than one show). I'm assuming that I need to iterate through the slide shows:



and then, for each slide show, iterate through the "ul li ul"s, ignoring the first one and hiding all the rest. But I can't figure out how to grab all of the "div.slideShow ul li ul"s for a particular slide show. Also, once I have an array of slides for a given show, I need to iterate through them in such a way that I can do something different to the first

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

I came up with a way to do it, but the iteration part seems very clunky:



In particular, I hate running the if/else for each iteration. I also tried the following, but it didn't work properly:



Any idea why that wouldn't work? Any suggestions re more efficient ways to do this? Any suggestions re slide shows that already have all the features I need (see list above)?

Many thanks again.

you could try to filter the elements so you return only the once you need...

or you can do it as you suggested... set a value for all and override it for certain once afterward.

Thanks! I went with:



which works perfectly. Can't figure out why slides.getFirst()... doesn't work, but I like the slides[0] notation better anyway. Don't know why that didn't occur to me.

Love mootools, BTW.