jQuery Selector parent descendant get number of elements in a div

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jQuery Selector parent descendant get number of elements in a div

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>jQuery Get Number of Paragraphs in a Div</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
        var matched = $(".content p");
        document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = 
          "Number of paragraphs in content div = " + matched.length;
    });/*from w w w .  j  a va2  s .  c  om*/
</script>
</head>
<body>
     
     <p id="demo"></p>
    <div class="content">
        <h1>This is a heading</h1>
        <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
        <p>This is another paragraph.</p>
        <div>This is just a block of text.</div>
        <p>This is one more paragraph.</p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>



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