What does jQuery.andSelf( ) method do in jQuery?


The andSelf( ) method adds the previous selection to the current selection. The method is useful when you have multiple traversals in your script and then adding something that was matched before the last traversal.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to work with jQuery.andSelf() method:

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <title>jQuery andSelf() method</title>
      <script src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>    
      <script>
         $(document).ready(function(){
            $("div").find("p").andSelf().addClass("border");
         });
      </script>    
      <style>
         p, div {
            margin:5px;
            padding:5px;
         }
         .border {
            border: 2px solid red;
         }
         .background {
            background:yellow;
         }
      </style>    
   </head>
   <body>
      <div>
         <p>First Paragraph</p>
         <p>Second Paragraph</p>
      </div>    
   </body>
</html>

Updated on: 09-Dec-2019

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