Starts with all paragraphs and searches for descendant span elements, same as $("p span")
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("p").find("span").css('color','red'); }); </script> </head> <body> <body> <p>bad or <span>good</span>.</p> </body> </html>