Question

The official documentation for the child selector (‘>’) states the following:

Note: The $(“> elem”, context) selector will be deprecated in a future release. Its usage is thus discouraged in lieu of using alternative selectors.

I currently have a selector of the form $("> thead th:eq(" + columnIndex + ")", context). What alternative syntax is suggested?

I’m aware of the .children() method, which could select the thead element, but would require additional selections afterwards. Multiple selection steps seem less efficient than a single selector.

Answer 1

I can imagine something along the lines of

context.children("thead").find("th:eq(" + columnIndex + ")")

Could this work? Haven’t tested it yet.