Question

Is there a simple way to get a node list (including the given node) matched by a query with Jquery?

I thought about using the .find method as following:

var getNodes = function(dom, query){
    var nodes = $(dom).find(query || '*');
    nodes.splice(0,0,dom);
    return nodes;
}

Olivier

Answer 1

If you want to search inside a set made of dom and its contents for elements matching a query, then you can do

$(dom).find(query).add($(dom).filter(query))

or

$(dom).find(query).addBack().filter(query);

A simpler one (but slower if there are many children) would be

$(dom).find('*').addBack().filter(query);