DOM Traversing

Functions for walking the DOM tree and filtering elements.

Check the current elements against a CSS selector.

jQuery: $.is()

Getting the parent DOM node of an element.

jQuery: $.parent(), $.parents()

Get the next, previous or all siblings of an element or retrieve siblings that match a given selector.

jQuery: $.siblings(), $.next(), $.nextAll(), $.prev, $.prevAll()

Get the first element that matches the selector by testing the element itself and traversing up through its ancestors in the DOM tree.

jQuery: $.closest()

Getting the children of a DOM element.

jQuery: $.children()