Question

I want to check the type of an element which is placed inside a div. I’m not able to reference the child element. I have tried using the following:

$("#"+styleTarget).siblings(0).get(0)tagName

Where styleTarget is a variable holding the id of the parent div.

Answer 1

There’s difference between a child and a sibling. In the example below, all the <li> are childrens of <ul>. Each <li> is a sibling of all of the other <li> elements, because they are on the same level in the DOM tree.

<ul class="parent">
  <li>List 1</li>
  <li>List 2</li>
  <li>List 3</li>
</ul>

You should be using .children(), as documented here http://api.jquery.com/children/.

$("."+styleTarget).children().get(0).tagName