It looks like JQuery does the search in the current document when using a selector.
How to search for an element only inside a div element?
It looks like JQuery does the search in the current document when using a
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It looks like JQuery does the search in the current document when using a selector.
How to search for an element only inside a div element?
jQuery selectors work very much like CSS selectors, which you may be more familiar with.
First, select the div, and then descend from that:
or build your selector to match children of the element in question: