Question

Is there a way to select jquery elements based on their “generation”? For example, selecting all great-grandchildren of an element?

This is obviously wrong, but this is my line of thinking:
$('#mydiv' :4th-generation').click();

I couldn’t find anything in the jQuery docs or here at SO about it…

UPDATE: based on suggested results below, here’s a working proof of concept: http://jsfiddle.net/eZhEM/

Thanks for the guys who replied!

Answer 1

Something like this I suppose (untested):

$('#mydiv > * > * > *').whatever();