Question

I have some HTML like this:

<div id="MyDiv">

  <div class="Class1">
    <div class="SClass1"></div>
  </div>
  <div class="Class2"></div>

</div>

Is there any difference between

$('#MyDiv').find('.SClass1').show();

and

$('#MyDiv .SClass1').show();

Answer 1

in you case, using find() is pretty senseless (except for readability – but anyone will have another opinion on that). i only use find() in cases where it’s really needed, like:

$('#MyDiv').show().find('.SClass1').css(...);

where something has to be done with the parent-element first and something else with one or more of its children.