How to get the children of the $(this) selector?

Question

I have a layout similar to this:

<div id="..."><img src="..."></div>

and would like to use a jQuery selector to select the child img inside the div on click.

To get the div, I've got this selector:

$(this)

How can I get the child img using a selector?

Answer 1

jQuery's each is one option:

<div id="test">
    <img src="testing.png"/>
    <img src="testing1.png"/>
</div>

$('#test img').each(function(){
    console.log($(this).attr('src'));
});

Answer 2

You can find all img element of parent div like below

$(this).find('img') or $(this).children('img')

If you want specific img element you can write like this

$(this).children('img:nth(n)')  
// where n is the child place in parent list start from 0 onwards

Your div contain only one img element. So for this below is right

 $(this).find("img").attr("alt")
                  OR
  $(this).children("img").attr("alt")

But if your div contain more img element like below

<div class="mydiv">
    <img src="test.png" alt="3">
    <img src="test.png" alt="4">
</div>

then you can't use upper code to find alt value of second img element. So you can try this:

 $(this).find("img:last-child").attr("alt")
                   OR
 $(this).children("img:last-child").attr("alt")

This example shows a general idea that how you can find actual object within parent object. You can use classes to differentiate your child object. That is easy and fun. i.e.

<div class="mydiv">
    <img class='first' src="test.png" alt="3">
    <img class='second' src="test.png" alt="4">
</div>

You can do this as below :

 $(this).find(".first").attr("alt")

and more specific as:

 $(this).find("img.first").attr("alt")

You can use find or children as above code. For more visit Children http://api.jquery.com/children/ and Find http://api.jquery.com/find/. See example http://jsfiddle.net/lalitjs/Nx8a6/

Answer 3

If your DIV tag is immediately followed by the IMG tag, you can also use:

$(this).next();

Answer 4

You may have 0 to many <img> tags inside of your <div>.

To find an element, use a .find().

To keep your code safe, use a .each().

Using .find() and .each() together prevents null reference errors in the case of 0 <img> elements while also allowing for handling of multiple <img> elements.

// Set the click handler on your div
$("body").off("click", "#mydiv").on("click", "#mydiv", function() {

  // Find the image using.find() and .each()
  $(this).find("img").each(function() {
  
        var img = this;  // "this" is, now, scoped to the image element
        
        // Do something with the image
        $(this).animate({
          width: ($(this).width() > 100 ? 100 : $(this).width() + 100) + "px"
        }, 500);
        
  });
  
});

#mydiv {
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
  background-color: #000000;
  cursor: pointer;
  padding: 50px;
  
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="mydiv">
  <img src="" width="100" height="100"/>
</div>