JQuery difference between searching 'children' and 'find'?

Question

When is one preferred over the other when searching for nested Divs?

Answer 1

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

Source: http://api.jquery.com/children/

Answer 2

Find is recursive, where children looks only 1 level deep in the DOM. Check out this: http://blog.ekini.net/2009/03/16/jquery-children-vs-find-which-is-faster/

Note: that is actually references a Stackoverflow post.

Either way, that should help answer your question. If you need to search more than one level use Find, if not use children as it is faster.

Answer 3

find() vs childern() in jQuery

find() – search through the matched elements in all the subsequent level ,All levels down.

children() – search through the matched elements’ child only (single level down).