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jQuery – accessing a child element

stoimen — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:20:03 +0000

Let’s assume you have a

element with 20 tags inside, and each tag has a somewhere inside it. If you’d like to access all those spans you should use this jQuery line:

$('div a').children(':first-child')

Common mistake is to query like that:

$('div a:first-child')

but that is completely other thing, and will return the first tag, not the inside all of them.