jQuery parent descendant Selector selects every element which is a descendant to a specific(parent) element.
Syntax:
$("parent descendant")Example 1: In this example, we are using parent descendant selector.
<html>
<head>
<script src=
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js">
script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("div span").css("color",
"lightgreen");
});
script>
head>
<body>
<h4>This div element has descendant span:h4>
<div>
<span>DESCENDANT ELEMENTspan>
div>
body>
html>
Output:
Example 2: Here is another example, of parent descendant selector.
<html>
<head>
<script src=
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js">
script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("button").click(function () {
$("div span").css("color", "lightgreen");
});
});
script>
head>
<body>
<h4>This div element has descendant span:h4>
<div>
<span>DESCENDANT ELEMENTspan>
div>
<br>
<button>Change colorbutton>
body>
html>
Output:
