Is there an equivalent to .closest() that searches down the DOM tree instead of up?

Question

Is there an equivalent to .closest() that searches down the DOM tree instead of up?

Answer 1

$('#Id div:first') does also what you are looking for.

Please also note that while closest() only returns one element, find(), children() and also $("#Id div") returns all matching elements, so you must add .first() or :first to reduce the result to the first occurence.