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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 68406

jQuery - selecting elements from inside a element

let's say I have a markup like this:

<div id="foo">
  ...
  <span id="moo">
    ...
  </span>
  ...
</div>

and I want to select #moo.

why $('#foo').find('span') works, but $('span', $('#foo')); doesn't ?

Upvotes: 132

Views: 375212

Answers (7)

Mohd Abdul Mujib
Mohd Abdul Mujib

Reputation: 13908

....but $('span', $('#foo')); doesn't work?

This method is called as providing selector context.

In this you provide a second argument to the jQuery selector. It can be any css object string just like you would pass for direct selecting or a jQuery element.

eg.

$("span",".cont1").css("background", '#F00');

The above line will select all spans within the container having the class named cont1.

DEMO

Upvotes: 7

Sai Kalyan Kumar Akshinthala
Sai Kalyan Kumar Akshinthala

Reputation: 11844

You can use find option to select an element inside another. For example, to find an element with id txtName in a particular div, you can use like

var name = $('#div1').find('#txtName').val();

Upvotes: 40

Cody
Cody

Reputation: 10015

Have a look here -- to query a sub-element of an element:

$(document.getElementById('parentid')).find('div#' + divID + ' span.child');

Upvotes: 9

Jishnu A P
Jishnu A P

Reputation: 14382

You can use any one these [starting from the fastest]

$("#moo") > $("#foo #moo") > $("div#foo span#moo") > $("#foo span") > $("#foo > #moo")

Take a look

Upvotes: 166

Pranay Rana
Pranay Rana

Reputation: 176896

Actually, $('#id', this); would select #id at any descendant level, not just the immediate child. Try this instead:

$(this).children('#id');

or

$("#foo > #moo")

or

$("#foo > span")

Upvotes: 106

hunter
hunter

Reputation: 63512

Why not just use:

$("#foo span")

or

$("#foo > span")

$('span', $('#foo')); works fine on my machine ;)

Upvotes: 11

Naftali
Naftali

Reputation: 146302

both seem to be working.

see fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/PSxkS/

Upvotes: 2

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