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Descendant Selector ("ancestor descendant")

Categories: Hierarchy

jQuery('ancestor descendant')

Description: Selects all elements that are descendants of a given ancestor.

  • jQuery('ancestor descendant')

    version added: 1.0

    ancestor   Any valid selector.

    descendant   A selector to filter the descendant elements.

A descendant of an element could be a child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and so on, of that element.

  • Finds all input descendants of forms.

    HTML:
    <form>
        <div>Form is surrounded by the green outline</div>
        <label>Child:</label>
        <input name="name" />
    
        <fieldset>
          <label>Grandchild:</label>
          <input name="newsletter" />
        </fieldset>
    
      </form>
      Sibling to form: <input name="none" />
    CSS:
    
    
      body { font-size:14px; }
      form { border:2px green solid; padding:2px; margin:0; 
             background:#efe; }
      div { color:red; }
      fieldset { margin:1px; padding:3px; }
      
    Code:
    $("form input").css("border", "2px dotted blue");