如何干净地访问jquery对象的直接后代？

Question

I have the following line in my js

var description = jqref.children('.category_info').children('.description').children('p').html();

which works exactly how I want it, though to me it feels way too clunky which feels like I am overlooking a better selector method.

I'm fairly certain I ought to be using the > direct child symbol but can't seem to implement it in the normal way as I am already dealing with a jquery object.

Answer 1

Use find with the child selector . I learned something new; you can prepend the selector with a child selector to make sure that you only get children:

var description = jqref.find('> .category_info > .description > p').html();

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5SktL/