$(this) with child and pseudo selector

Question

I have the selection below, is there any way to make this selection work with $(this)?

(select the second div child of .container)

$(".container div:eq(2)").width();

@Thomas , whatever html element attached to the event , $(this) is nothing but that element...reference — kobe, Dec 10 '10 at 05:09
:eq(2) is almost the same to :nth-child(3) why are you suggesting going the opposite way? — ThomasReggi, Dec 10 '10 at 05:17
@Thomas , can you please post the click handler , or whatever event handler code and html also// — kobe, Dec 10 '10 at 05:22
there is no click hander... There is no event it's for a plugin function. Need something similar to this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/306583/this-selector-and-children — ThomasReggi, Dec 10 '10 at 05:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '10 at 05:42

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Try

$(".container").each(function(){
    $(this).find("div:eq(2)"); // if its not a direct child
});

answered Dec 10 '10 at 05:42

rahul

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 10 '10 at 05:04

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What you have there already is fine. Why do you want to use $(this)? You would use $(this) as an example, in a function:

$(".container div:eq(2)").click(function() {
    if( $(this).width > 100 ) {
        ...
    }
});

answered Dec 10 '10 at 05:04

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I am piecing together a "plugin" that involves selecting $(".container div:eq(2)").width(), trying to think of a way to pass in the outermost div as a variable and I need to use $(this). – ThomasReggi Dec 10 '10 at 05:12
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What about using `$(this).parent()`? – matthewpavkov Dec 10 '10 at 05:13
:eq(2) is almost the same to :nth-child(3) why are you suggesting going the opposite way? – ThomasReggi Dec 10 '10 at 05:16
@Thomas it depends which click hander you attached, if you attach parent if we can traverser forward ,if you attach child you will traverse opposite direction... – kobe Dec 10 '10 at 05:43

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '10 at 06:07

What's wrong with:

$(this).find("div:eq(2)").width()

or:

$("div:eq(2)", this).width()

?

BTW that returns the width of the third div descendant from this (which unlike div:nth-child(2) may or may not have two siblings before it, :eq() refers to the position in the matching pseudo-array, not in the DOM)

$(this) with child and pseudo selector

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