jQuery parent > child Selector


The parent > child selector in jQuery is used to select all elements that are a direct child of the specified element.

Syntax

The syntax is as follows −

("parent > child")

Example

Let us now see an example to implement the jQuery parent > child selector 

 Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
   $(document).ready(function(){
      $("div > span").css("color", "red");
   });
</script>
<style>
div {
   border:1px solid black;
   padding:10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Demo Heading</h2>
<div>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
<span>span outside p element</span>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
</div><br>
<div>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
<p>This is demo text. <span>span inside p element.</span></p>
<p>This is demo text.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output −

Updated on: 31-Dec-2019

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