jQuery select descendants, including the parent
Consider the following HTML: <div class="foo" id="obj"> I should be changed red <div class="bar" style="color:black;"> I should not be changed red. <div class="foo">I should be changed red.</div> </div> </div> Given a DOM element obj and an expression, how do I go about selecting any children and possibly obj ? I'm looking for something similar to "select descendants" but also including the parent, if it matches the expression. var obj = $("#obj")[0]; //wrong, may include siblings of 'obj' $(".foo", $(obj).parent()).css("color", "red"); //wrong -- excludes 'obj' $(".foo", obj).css("color",