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jQuery Traversal - Siblings

Siblings have the same parent element.

With jQuery, you can traverse an element's sibling elements in the DOM tree.

Horizontal traversal in the DOM tree

There are many Useful methods allow us to traverse the DOM tree horizontally:

siblings()

next()

nextAll()

nextUntil()

prev()

prevAll()

prevUntil()

jQuery siblings() method

##siblings() method returns all sibling elements of the selected element.

The following example returns all sibling elements of <h2>:

Instance

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.siblings *
{ 
	display: block;
	border: 2px solid lightgrey;
	color: lightgrey;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://libs.baidu.com/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
	$("h2").siblings().css({"color":"red","border":"2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>
<body class="siblings">

<div>div (父元素)
  <p>p</p>
  <span>span</span>
  <h2>h2</h2>
  <h3>h3</h3>
  <p>p</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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You can also use optional parameters to filter the search for sibling elements.

The following example returns all <p> elements that are siblings of <h2>:

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.siblings *
{ 
	display: block;
	border: 2px solid lightgrey;
	color: lightgrey;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://libs.baidu.com/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("h2").siblings("p").css({"color":"red","border":"2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>
<body class="siblings">

<div>div (父元素)
  <p>p</p>
  <span>span</span>
  <h2>h2</h2>
  <h3>h3</h3>
  <p>p</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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## jQuery next() method
next() method returns the next sibling element of the selected element.

This method only returns one element.

The following example returns the next sibling element of <h2>:

Instance

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.siblings *
{ 
	display: block;
	border: 2px solid lightgrey;
	color: lightgrey;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://libs.baidu.com/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
	$("h2").next().css({"color":"red","border":"2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>
<body class="siblings">

<div>div (父元素)
  <p>p</p>
  <span>span</span>
  <h2>h2</h2>
  <h3>h3</h3>
  <p>p</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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##jQuery nextAll() method

nextAll() method returns all following sibling elements of the selected element.

The following example returns all following sibling elements of <h2>:

Instance

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.siblings *
{ 
	display: block;
	border: 2px solid lightgrey;
	color: lightgrey;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://libs.baidu.com/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
	$("h2").nextAll().css({"color":"red","border":"2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>
<body class="siblings">

<div>div (父元素)
  <p>p</p>
  <span>span</span>
  <h2>h2</h2>
  <h3>h3</h3>
  <p>p</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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##jQuery nextUntil() method

nextUntil() method returns the introduction All following sibling elements between the two given parameters.

The following example returns all sibling elements between the <h2> and <h6> elements:

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.siblings *
{ 
	display: block;
	border: 2px solid lightgrey;
	color: lightgrey;
	padding: 5px;
	margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://libs.baidu.com/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
	$("h2").nextUntil("h6").css({"color":"red","border":"2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>
<body class="siblings">

<div>div (父元素)
  <p>p</p>
  <span>span</span>
  <h2>h2</h2>
  <h3>h3</h3>
  <h4>h4</h4>
  <h5>h5</h5>
  <h6>h6</h6>
  <p>p</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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##jQuery prev(), prevAll() & prevUntil() methods
prev(), prevAll() and prevUntil() methods Works similarly to the methods above, but in the opposite direction: they return previous sibling elements (traversing sibling elements backward in the DOM tree, rather than forward).

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