jQuery children()

Introduction

Return elements that are direct children of <ul>:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.descendants * {//from  w w w .  j  a  va  2  s .  c om
  display: block;
  border: 2px solid lightgrey;
  color: lightgrey;
  padding: 5px;
  margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("ul").children().css({"color": "red", "border": "2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>

<body class="descendants">body (great-grandparent)
  <div style="width:500px;">div (grandparent)
    <ul>ul (direct parent)
      <li>li (child)
        <span>span (grandchild)</span>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

The children() method returns all direct children of the selected element.

This method does not return text nodes.

To return all children including text nodes, use the contents() method.

$(selector).children(filter)

Parameter	Optional	Description
filter	Optional.	a selector expression to search for children

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