How can I select item with class within a DIV?

Question

I have the following HTML:

Answer 1

Try:

$('#mydiv').find('.myclass');

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Or:

$('.myclass','#mydiv');

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Or:

$('#mydiv .myclass');

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References:

• find().
• Selector context.

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Good to learn from the find() documentation:

The .find() and .children() methods are similar, except that the latter only travels a single level down the DOM tree.