Question

If I wanted to find an element on the page, I would use $(‘#Foo’);

Now, I have a scenario where my ‘this’ context is a jQuery element. I would like to find an element underneath ‘this.’

I am using:

$(this).find('#Foo');

I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t a cleaner way of expressing this. If I wasn’t in my this context, I might use something like $(‘#this #Foo’). It seems surprising that my jQuery selector query gets longer when I have an explicit reference to the ‘this’ jQuery element.

Answer 1

first off, since element ids are unique to the document, you don’t need to find one within the context of another element.. but for a nice syntax, I like

$(‘.foo’, this) which will find all children with class “foo”