jQuery - children( [selector]) Method

Description

The children( [selector] ) method gets a set of elements containing all of the unique immediate children of each of the matched set of elements.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this method −

selector.children( [selector] )

Parameters

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

selector − This is an optional argument to filter out all the childrens. If not supplied then all the childrens are selected.

Example

Following is a simple example a simple showing the usage of this method −

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The jQuery Example</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" 
         src = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/jquery-3.6.0.js">
      </script>
		
      <script>
         $(document).ready(function(){
            $("div").children(".selected").addClass("blue");
         });
      </script>
		
      <style>
         .blue { color:blue; }
      </style>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <div>
         <span>Hello</span>
         <p class = "selected">Hello Again</p>
         <div class = "selected">And Again</div>
         <p class = "biggest">And One Last Time</p>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

This would apply blue color to all children with a class "selected" of each div, as shown below −

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The jQuery Example</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" 
         src = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/jquery-3.6.0.js">
      </script>
		
      <script>
         $(document).ready(function(){
            $("div").children(".selected").addClass("blue");
         });
      </script>
		
      <style>
         .blue { color:blue; }
      </style>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <div>
         <span>Hello</span>
         <p class = "blue">Hello Again</p>
         <div class = "blue">And Again</div>
         <p class = "biggest">And One Last Time</p>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

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