Jquery: Forget the DOM structure, just find the next element with this class
<p>I feel like this question has been asked before but the answers seem pretty specific to each poster.  </p>

<p>I'm looking for a way to identify a given element and find the next element that has a particular class.  I don't want to have to deal with parent() or children() since I'm parsing through a table and I don't want it to stop at the end of a row or even the end of the table itself (there are two side-by-side).</p>

<p>Is there any way to just search the entire page for the next instance of an element?</p>

<p>BACKGROUND INFO:
<a href="http://jsfiddle.net/HKkAa/2/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/HKkAa/2/</a></p>

<p>I'm trying to iterate through the bottom table starting at the highlighted cell and applying the "highlight" class to each cell until I reach the end date.  I have a way to calculate when I've reached the end date, I just need the magic method to select the next instance of a link.</p>
