jQuery Examples - $('*')

Description

The element selector "T > *" selects all the children of element which 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.
* − Universal selector

Returns

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

Example

Following example would select all the children of a paragraph element and will apply yellow color to their background.

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The Selector Example</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js">
      </script>   
      <script type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript">
         $(document).ready(function() {
            /* This would select all the children of paragraphs */
            $("p > *").css("background-color", "yellow");
         });
      </script>  
   </head> 

   <body>
      <div class="big" id = "div1">
         <p><span>This is first division of the DOM.</span></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 −

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