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Element Selector ("element")

Categories: Basic

jQuery('element')

Description: Selects all elements with the given tag name.

  • jQuery('element')

    version added: 1.0

    element   An element to search for. Refers to the tagName of DOM nodes.

JavaScript's getElementsByTagName() function is called to return the appropriate elements when this expression is used.

  • Finds every DIV element.

    HTML:
    <div>DIV1</div>
    
      <div>DIV2</div>
      <span>SPAN</span>
    CSS:
    
      div,span {
        width: 60px;
        height: 60px;
        float:left;
        padding: 10px;
        margin: 10px;
        background-color: #EEEEEE;
      }
      
    Code:
    $("div").css("border","9px solid red");