jQuery children() method

jQuery Web Development Front End Technology

The children() method in jQuery is used to return all direct children of the selected element.

Example

Let us now see an example to implement the jQuery children() method −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   .demo * {
      display: block;
      border: 2px solid blue;
      padding: 10px;
      margin: 25px;
   }
   .one {
      border: 2px solid yellow;
   }
</style>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
   $(document).ready(function(){
      $("div").children().addClass("one");
   });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Heading One</h1>
<div class="demo" style="width:600px;">This is our demo text in div.
<p>child
<span>grandchild</span>
<span>grandchild</span>
</p>
<p>child
<span>grandchild</span>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

Example

Let us now see another example −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   .demo * {
      display: block;
      border: 3px dashed red;
      padding: 10px;
      margin: 25px;
   }
   .one {
      border: 2px solid yellow;
   }
</style>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
   $(document).ready(function(){
      $("div").children().addClass("one");
   });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Heading One</h1>
<div class="demo" style="width:600px;">This is our demo text in div.
<p>child
<span>grandchild</span>
<span>grandchild</span>
</p>
<p>child
<span>grandchild</span>
<span>grandchild</span>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>