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How to get the children of the $(this) selector?

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Problem

I have a layout similar to this, and would like to use a jQuery selector to select the child img inside the div on click.





To get the div, I've got this selector:
$(this)


How can I get the child img using a selector?

Solution

The jQuery constructor accepts a 2nd parameter called context which can be used to override the context of the selection.

jQuery("img", this);


Which is the same as using .find() like this:

jQuery(this).find("img");


If the imgs you desire are only direct descendants of the clicked element, you can also use .children():

jQuery(this).children("img");

Code Snippets

jQuery("img", this);
jQuery(this).find("img");
jQuery(this).children("img");

Context

Stack Overflow Q#306583, score: 2986

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