jQuery Traversing Descendants Children Example

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		<title>jQuery children() – Get Immediate Children Elements</title>
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			body {
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			h2 {
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			.parent-box {
				border: 2px solid #999;
				padding: 15px;
				background: #fff;
				width: 400px;
				cursor: pointer;
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			.child {
				margin: 5px 0;
				padding: 10px;
				background: #e7f3ff;
				border: 1px solid #99c;
			}
			.nested-wrapper {
				margin: 5px 0;
				padding: 20px;
				background: #33333355;
				border: 1px solid #99c;
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			.highlight {
				background: #ff3f3f33;
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<h2>jQuery children() – Get Immediate Children</h2>
		<p class="description">
			Click the parent box below to highlight only the <strong>direct child</strong> elements using the <kbd>children('.child')</kbd> method.
		</p>

<div class="parent-box">
			<div class="child">Child 1</div>
			<div class="child">Child 2</div>
			<div class="child">Child 3</div>

<div class="nested-wrapper">
				<div class="child">Nested Child</div>
			</div>
		</div>

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