jQuery Examples - 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://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.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://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.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 −
jqueryexamples_traversing.htm
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