how to target a class within a variable using jQuery

Question

Not sure if I phrase the question correctly, but I'm trying to target a class within another class, but I've declared the parent class as a variable.

<div class="parent">
  <p class="child">hello world</p>
</div>

var a = $('.parent');
var b = $('.parent .child');

Is there a better way/convetion of declaring variable 'b'? Or targeting classes within variable 'a'?

please do some *research* before asking. Start here: http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Getting_Started_with_jQuery — ahren, Dec 17 '12 at 01:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 17 '12 at 01:13

3

If you want to target elements inside of a you can use:

var b = a.find('.child');

edited Dec 17 '12 at 01:13

elclanrs

answered Dec 17 '12 at 01:13

Godwin

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '12 at 01:14

2

Since 'a' is now a jquery object, you can use the 'children' method to find a matching node:

var b = a.children('p.child'); or var b = a.children('p');

answered Dec 17 '12 at 01:14

BBagi

2 Answers2