jQuery - Element Name Selector

Description

The element selector selects all the elements that have a tag name of T.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this selector −

$('tagname')

Parameters

Here is the description of all the parameters used by this selector −

tagname − Any standard HTML tag name like div, p, em, img, li etc.

Returns

Like any other jQuery selector, this selector also returns an array filled with the found elements.

Example

$('p') − Selects all elements with a tag name of p in the document.
$('div') − Selects all elements with a tag name of div in the document.

Following example would select all the divisions and will apply yellow color to their background −

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The Selecter Example</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" 
         src = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/jquery-3.6.0.js">
      </script>
   
      <script type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript">
         $(document).ready(function() {
            /* This would select all the divisions */
            $("div").css("background-color", "yellow");
         });
      </script>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <div class = "big" id = "div1">
         <p>This is first division of the DOM.</p>
      </div>

      <div class = "medium" id = "div2">
         <p>This is second division of the DOM.</p>
      </div>

      <div class = "small" id = "div3">
         <p>This is third division of the DOM</p>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

jquery-selectors.htm