jquery selector not working in IE

Question

these two selectors is not working in Internet Explorer 8 (they work okay in Firefox, Safari and Chrome).

$(this.children).stop().animate({ color: "#4B2B26" }, 300);
$(this).find('a').stop().animate({ color: "#4B2B26" }, 300);

Help is appreciated, thanks!

edit; I think it's a problem with jquery.js.. Each time i hover a object the debugger trows out; "Invalid Argument, Jquery.js line 137 Code 0".

now i have;

$("a", this).stop().animate({ 'color': '#CEEAE6' }, 300); 

also NOT working in IE.

BUT this one is working fine in IE;

$("h3", this).stop().animate({ 'border-bottom': '5px solid #CEEAE6' }, 0);

Answer 1

No idea about the second rule, but for the first rule can you try this:

$(this).children().stop().animate({ color: "#4B2B26" }, 300);

.children() is a jQuery method, thus browser independent. "this.children" returns the children property of whatever "this" is at that moment. Don't know if that is even a supported property for a DOM element in IE. Using "this.childNodes" might also do the trick here but probably also not browser independent...