jQuery Examples - prev( [selector] ) Method

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Description

The prev( [selector] ) method gets the immediately preceding sibling of each element in the set of matched elements, optionally filtered by a selector.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this method −

selector.prev( [selector] )

Parameters

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

selector − This is optional selector to filter the previous Elements with.

Example

Following is a simple example a simple showing the usage of this method. Try this example without passing selector in prev() method −

<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 type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript">
         $(document).ready(function(){
            $("p").prev(".selected").addClass("hilight");
         });
      </script>

      <style>
         .hilight { background:yellow; }
      </style>
   </head>
	
   <body>	
      <div><span>Hello</span></div>
      <p class = "selected">Hello Again</p>
      <p>And Again</p>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

<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 type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript">
         $(document).ready(function(){
            $("p").next(".selected").addClass("hilight");
         });
      </script>
		
      <style>
         .hilight { background:yellow; }
      </style>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <div><span>Hello</span></div>
      <p class = "hilight">Hello Again</p>
      <p>And Again</p>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

jqueryexamples_traversing.htm

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