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Post January 14th, 2010, 9:18 pm

I want to use "this" along with the child selector.

Something like this, but it's not working:

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$(this '> li').css("border","3px solid red");
 
  1. $(this '> li').css("border","3px solid red");
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Post January 14th, 2010, 9:18 pm

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Post January 14th, 2010, 11:25 pm

There's a few different options for you, but the easiest and most readable IMO is this:
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$(this).find('li');


Other options could be:
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$("li", this); //after researching, looks like this just does a find() anyways

-OR-

$(this).children("li");
  1. $("li", this); //after researching, looks like this just does a find() anyways
  3. -OR-
  5. $(this).children("li");
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Post January 15th, 2010, 10:31 am

so it's not possible to traverse within the initial selector if starting with "this"?

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$(this '*');
 
$('*' this);
 
$(this.className);
 
$(this #idName);
 
  1. $(this '*');
  2.  
  3. $('*' this);
  4.  
  5. $(this.className);
  6.  
  7. $(this #idName);
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Post January 15th, 2010, 1:44 pm

Not that I've seen in use.
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