jQuery Traversing Reference

Traversing methods.

jQuery Traversing Reference

Methods to traverse the DOM tree.

MethodDescription
add()Adds elements to selection
children()Returns direct children
closest()Returns first ancestor matching selector
each()Iterates for each element
find()Returns descendants
first()Returns first element
has()Returns elements containing selector
is()Checks if elements match selector
last()Returns last element
map()Passes elements through function
next()Returns next sibling
nextAll()Returns all next siblings
parent()Returns direct parent
parents()Returns all ancestors
prev()Returns previous sibling
siblings()Returns all siblings

Example

$("div").children();