How to select elements from a set that are children of another element
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Hi,
The title is a bit confusing but here's what I'm after:
I have a set of elements containing all the
h3
elements in a page.
In jQuery terms:var mySet = $('h3')
.I also have an div element
var myContainer = $('div#foo')
I need to find all items in the set
mySet
that are children ofmyContainer
.
Any ideas? I bet there's some magical one liner for this but I cannot think of any. I'd rather not loop through every element in the set manually and use .closest(myContainer)
or something like that to determine the relationship.
Note that in my scenario, I cannot use a new selector like $('div#foo h3')
(that would be too easy) as I don't have access to the actual selector values. So it has to be dynamic.
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