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.nextAll()

Categories: Tree Traversal

.nextAll( [ selector ] )Returns: jQuery

Description: Get all following siblings of each element in the set of matched elements, optionally filtered by a selector.

  • .nextAll( [ selector ] )

    version added: 1.0

    selector   A string containing a selector expression to match elements against.

Given a jQuery object that represents a set of DOM elements, the .nextAll() method allows us to search through the successors of these elements in the DOM tree and construct a new jQuery object from the matching elements.

The method optionally accepts a selector expression of the same type that we can pass to the $() function. If the selector is supplied, the elements will be filtered by testing whether they match it.

Consider a page with a simple list on it:

<ul>
   <li>list item 1</li>
   <li>list item 2</li>
   <li class="third-item">list item 3</li>
   <li>list item 4</li>
   <li>list item 5</li>
</ul>

If we begin at the third item, we can find the elements which come after it:

$('li.third-item').nextAll().css('background-color', 'red');

The result of this call is a red background behind items 4 and 5. Since we do not supply a selector expression, these following elements are unequivocally included as part of the object. If we had supplied one, the elements would be tested for a match before they were included.

  • Locate all the divs after the first and give them a class.

    HTML:
    <div>first</div>
      <div>sibling<div>child</div></div>
      <div>sibling</div>
    
      <div>sibling</div>
    CSS:
    
    
      div { width: 80px; height: 80px; background: #abc; 
            border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px; float: left; }
      div.after { border-color: red; }
      
    Code:
    $("div:first").nextAll().addClass("after");
  • Locate all the paragraphs after the second child in the body and give them a class.

    HTML:
    <p>p</p>
    
      <div>div</div>
      <p>p</p>
      <p>p</p>
      <div>div</div>
    
      <p>p</p>
      <div>div</div>
    CSS:
    
      div, p { width: 60px; height: 60px; background: #abc;
               border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px; float: left; }
      .after { border-color: red; }
      
    Code:
    
        $(":nth-child(1)").nextAll("p").addClass("after");