jQuery - search for previous selector relative to current

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Published on 2010-06-13T23:53:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 0:02 UTC
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I have a form with 3 sections in it. Each section has a dedicated div for fairly long contextual help messages regarding the input that has focus.

My question is, if I give each of these help divs a class of "form-tip" and each input that has a tip the class "has-tip", how can I get the tip to always show up in the previous "form-tip" div?

Something like:

$('.has-tip').each(focus(function() {
    var tip = $(this).attr('title');
    // Find most recent $('.form-tip') in the DOM and populate it with tip
}));

I hope that makes sense... Thanks for any help.

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