Jquery Combining selectors

Consider following DOM Structure

<ul class="parentUl">
 <li> Level 1
 <ul class="childUl">
 <li>Level 1-1 <span> Item - 1 </span></li>
 <li>Level 1-1 <span> Item - 2 </span></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li> Level 2
 <ul class="childUl">
 <li>Level 2-1 <span> Item - 1 </span></li>
 <li>Level 2-1 <span> Item - 1 </span></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
</ul>

Descendant and child selectors

Given a parent

),

1. Simple $('parent child')
```
>> $('ul.parentUl li')
```
This gets all matching descendants of the specified ancestor all levels down.

2. > - $('parent > child')
```
>> $('ul.parentUl > li')
```
This finds all matching children (only 1st level down).

3. Context based selector - $('child','parent')
```
>> $('li','ul.parentUl')
```
This works same as 1. above.

4. find() - $('parent').find('child')
```
>> $('ul.parentUl').find('li')
```
This works same as 1. above.

5. children() - $('parent').find('child')
```
>> $('ul.parentUl').children('li')
```
This works same as 2. above.

Other combinators

Group Selector : ","
Select all < ul > elements AND all < li > elements AND all < span > elements :
```
$('ul, li, span')
```
Multiples selector : "" (no character)

Select all < ul > elements with class parentUl :
```
$('ul.parentUl')
```
Adjacent Sibling Selector : "+"
Select all < li > elements that are placed immediately after another < li > element:
```
$('li + li')
```
General Sibling Selector : "~"

Select all < li > elements that are siblings of other < li > elements:
```
$('li ~ li')
```

Conclusion

In this page (written and validated by A. Gawali) you learned about Jquery Combining selectors . What's Next? If you are interested in completing Jquery tutorial, your next topic will be learning about: Jquery DOM Elements as selectors.

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