Question

I have following .each jQuery loop.

$('.category').each(function(index) {
    if( $('.category > span').parent().next('h2') ) { 

        // get currently looped element which follows the condition
    }

});

How to get currently looped element through .each inside the if statement?

Answer 1

How to get currently looped element through .each inside the if
statement?

Use:

$(this) // represents current iterated element in wrapped set

Example:

$('.category').each(function(index) {
    if( $('.category > span').parent().next('h2') ) { 
      $(this).css('color', 'red');
    }
});

Note that you could also get DOM object instead of jQuery object by using this keyword.