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matt
matt

Reputation: 44293

jquery this child selector?

Quick question, I couldn't find anything on the web. I have a parent div and a child div inside of it. to select it with css you would say:

#parent .child {}

In jQuery, I have a variable for my parent element. However, how can I select the child with this? I know it's easy to create a new variable, I'm just curious if it's possible?

const parent = $('#parent');
    
parent.click(function() {
  $(this > '.child').hide();
})

thank you

Upvotes: 7

Views: 23172

Answers (5)

Gabi Purcaru
Gabi Purcaru

Reputation: 31524

The correct syntax is:

$(".child", this)

If you only want the direct children:

$("> .child", this)

(credit goes to Gumbo for mentioning this)

Update, two years later:

You can use $(this).find('> .child')

Upvotes: 22

Mohan Ram
Mohan Ram

Reputation: 8463

U can find children of your parent elements and apply css.

Sample code is below.

var Parent = $('#parent');

Parent.click(function() {
$(this).find('.child').hide();});

Upvotes: 1

jAndy
jAndy

Reputation: 235972

You may just invoke the .find() method:

var Parent = $('#parent');

Parent.click(function() {
    $(this).find('.child').hide();
});

If you only want to select the immediate children, use the .children() method instead:

Parent.click(function() {
    $(this).children('.child').hide();
});

People often use a syntax like

$('.child', this);

aswell. It's not very convinient to me since you write a "reverse" order someway. Anyway, this syntax gets converted internally into a .find() statement, so you're actually saving a call.

Ref.: .find(), .children()

Upvotes: 6

Anwar Chandra
Anwar Chandra

Reputation: 8638

var Parent = $('#parent');

Parent.click(function () {
    $(".child", this).hide();
});

or

$("#parent").click(function () {
    $(".child", this).hide();
});

Upvotes: 1

AEMLoviji
AEMLoviji

Reputation: 3257

try this code:

  $("#parent").click(function () {
               $(this).next().hide();
});

Upvotes: 1

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