jQuery - children( [selector]) Method
Description
The children( [selector] ) method gets a set of elements containing all of the unique immediate children of each of the matched set of elements.
Syntax
Here is the simple syntax to use this method −
selector.children( [selector] )
Parameters
Here is the description of all the parameters used by this method −
selector − This is an optional argument to filter out all the childrens. If not supplied then all the childrens are selected.
Example
Following is a simple example a simple showing the usage of this method −
Live Demo<html> <head> <title>The jQuery Example</title> <script type = "text/javascript" src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"> </script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("div").children(".selected").addClass("blue"); }); </script> <style> .blue { color:blue; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <span>Hello</span> <p class = "selected">Hello Again</p> <div class = "selected">And Again</div> <p class = "biggest">And One Last Time</p> </div> </body> </html>
This would apply blue color to all children with a class "selected" of each div, as shown below −
Live Demo<html> <head> <title>The jQuery Example</title> <script type = "text/javascript" src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"> </script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("div").children(".selected").addClass("blue"); }); </script> <style> .blue { color:blue; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <span>Hello</span> <p class = "blue">Hello Again</p> <div class = "blue">And Again</div> <p class = "biggest">And One Last Time</p> </div> </body> </html>
This will produce following result −