How can I select item with class within a DIV?

I have the following HTML:

<div id="mydiv">
  <div class="myclass"></div>
</div>

I want to be able to use a selector that selects the inside div, but specific for the mydiv container. How can I achieve this with jQuery?

Solution 1:

Try:

$('#mydiv').find('.myclass');

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Or:

$('.myclass','#mydiv');

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Or:

$('#mydiv .myclass');

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References:

Good to learn from the find() documentation:

The .find() and .children() methods are similar, except that the latter only travels a single level down the DOM tree.

Try this

$("#mydiv div.myclass")

You'll do it the same way you would apply a css selector. For instanse you can do

$("#mydiv > .myclass")

$("#mydiv .myclass")

The last one will match every myclass inside myDiv, including myclass inside myclass.

If you want to select every element that has class attribute "myclass" use

$('#mydiv .myclass');

If you want to select only div elements that has class attribute "myclass" use

$("div#mydiv div.myclass");

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