jQuery find does not seem to work

Question

I have a DocumentFragment stored in \"selectedContents\", and I am trying to find \"span\" elements in it, with the help of jQuery. It has two child nodes, where the first o

Answer 1

Because you're passing a collection of elements, you need to use .filter() to filter the out of the set.

$(selectedContents.childNodes).filter('span');

• http://api.jquery.com/filter/

The .find() method is used to search for descendants.

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EDIT: Note that your approach of passing the childNodes into the jQuery object is correct. You can't pass a documentFragment as some suggest.

Here's an example to illustrate: http://jsfiddle.net/P8nur/