jQuery Examples - $("p > .myclass")

Description

"$("p > .myclass")" Selects all elements matched by <p> that contain an element with a class of myclass.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this selector −

$("container-element > .class-name")

Parameters

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

container-element − Any standard HTML tag name like div, p, em, img, li etc.
class-name − style class applied on child elements.

Returns

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

Example

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() {
            /*  Selects all elements matched by <p>that contain an element with a class of myclass.*/
            $("p > .myclass").css("background-color", "yellow");
         });
      </script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>Hello World</p>
      <p class="myclass"><span class="myclass">What a nice feeling!</span></p>
      <div>
         <p>Have a good day!</p>
      </div>
      <div></div>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

jqueryexamples_selectors.htm