Web Developer's Reference Guide

jQuery traversing

You can traverse through the elements in the order they are combined. All the elements are mostly combined in the form of a tree, and we can traverse them starting from the root.

Note

Elements are not combined per se, but they are rather structured or modeled within the document object.

Let's take a look at the following image:

Let's take a look at the following description:

• The <div> element is the parent of <ul> and an ancestor of everything inside it
• The <ul> element is the parent of both the <li> elements and a child of <div>
• The left <li> element is the parent of <span>, child of <ul>, and a descendant of <div>
• The <span> element ...