In this post of JQuery, I will show how to select elements that are descendants of another element.
Below is the complete html code that will be used as an example
1 <html>
2 <head>
3 https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js
4 </head>
5 <body>
6
7 function selectDescendantElement() {
8 var $element = $('div li');
9 alert($element.length);
10 }
11
12 <input id="Items1Button" name="Items1" type="button" value="Items1" onclick="selectDescendantElement();"/>
13
14
15 - Item1
16 - Item2
17 - Item3
18
19
20
21 Paragraph content
22
23 </body>
24 </html>
The jQuery syntax will be
$(parentSelector tagName)
where
parentSelector –> Selector identifying the parent element
tagName –> tagName of the childrens
In our example I have created one javascript functions “selectDescendantElement”.
selectDescendantElement will select all the elements that are descendants (indirect children) of element Items1, which is list containing 3 items. Refer to line 8.
