Question

It’s pretty easy for me to get this going and it works:

if ($(this).next().is("object")){//dostuff}

But due to new div containments i now have to check the first child of this.
But $(this) doesn’t play nice with selectors, how do i do the same kind of thing in that situ?

This doesn’t work:

  if ($(this:first-child).is("element")) 

Answer 1

What do you mean it “doesn’t play nice”? You don’t write :first-child outside of a string for any other selector, so why would you with this?

Stack selectors on $(this) like you would on any other jQuery object:

$(this).find(':first-child').is("element");

or:

$(':first-child', this).is("element");

There may be more effective solutions for this specific scenario, but my answer demonstrates how to use $(this) like any other jQuery object.