Both work, but is there any advantage / dis-advantage of using one over the other ?
$("#" + this.id + " > ul > li.active:first")
vs
$(this).find(" > ul > li.active:first")
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The second selector works, I’d go with that instead of concatenating the ID into the first selector (looks ugly) and making jQuery look for that same element ID again (redundant).