jQuery Traversing -Descendants

With jQuery you can traverse down the DOM tree to find descendants of an element.

A descendant is a child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and so on.

Traversing Down the DOM Tree

Two useful jQuery methods for traversing down the DOM tree are:

• children()
• find()

jQuery children() Method

Thechildren() method returns all direct children of the selected element.

This method only traverses a single level down the DOM tree.

The following example returns all elements that are direct children of each<div> elements:

You can also use an optional parameter to filter the search for children.

The following example returns all<p> elements with the class name "first", that are direct children of<div>:

jQuery find() Method

Thefind() method returns descendant elements of the selected element, all the way down to the last descendant.

The following example returns all<span> elements that are descendants of<div>:

The following example returns all descendants of<div>:

jQuery Exercises

$("div").();

jQuery Traversing Reference

For a complete overview of all jQuery Traversing methods, please go to ourjQuery Traversing Reference.