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jQuery Traversing Descendants
To traverse and find descendants of an element, jQuery has the following methods: children() and find().
children() method
The childreb() method in jQuery is used to return the direct children of the selected element (only a single level of direct children). Let us see an example−
Example
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> div { width:600px; } .demo * { display: block; border: 2px solid orange; color: blue; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; } </style> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("div").children().css({"color": "gray", "border": "3px dashed blue"}); }); </script> </head> <body class="demo">great-great-grandparent <div>great-grandparent <ul>grandparent <li>parent <span>span</span> </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>
Output
This will produce the following output−
find() method
The find() method is used to return the descendant elements of the selected element (down to the last descendant). Let us see an example−
Example
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> div { width:600px; } .demo * { display: block; border: 2px solid orange; color: blue; padding: 10px; margin: 10px; } </style> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("div").find("span").css({"color": "gray", "border": "3px dashed blue"}); }); </script> </head> <body class="demo">great-great-grandparent <div>great-grandparent <ul>grandparent <li>parent <span>span</span> </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>
Output
This will produce the following example−
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