List of jQuery Selectors

The jQuery is the collections of scripts written in JavaScript to perform various task including the document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation etc. The syntax of jQuery was listed, where we go through the selectors. Now giving you the  complete list of jQuery Selectors.

 jQuery Selectors

• $('*'): This selector selects all the elements in the document.
• $("p > *"): This selector selects all elements that are children of a paragraph element.
• $("#specialID"): This selector function gets the element with id="specialID".
• $(".specialClass"): This selector gets all the elements that have the class ofspecialClass.
• $("li:not(.myclass)"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that do not have.
• $("a#specialID.specialClass"): This selector matches links with an id of specialID and a class of specialClass.
• $("p a.specialClass"): This selector matches links with a class of specialClass declared within <p> elements.
• $("ul li:first"): This selector gets only the first <li> element of the <ul>.
• $("#container p"): Selects all elements matched by <p> that are descendants of an element that has an id of container.
• $("li > ul"): Selects all elements matched by <ul> that are children of an element matched by <li>
• $("strong + em"): Selects all elements matched by <em> that immediately follow a sibling element matched by <strong>.
• $("p ~ ul"): Selects all elements matched by <ul> that follow a sibling element matched by <p>.
• $("code, em, strong"): Selects all elements matched by <code> or <em> or <strong>.
• $("p strong, .myclass"): Selects all elements matched by <strong> that are descendants of an element matched by <p> as well as all elements that have a class ofmyclass.
• $(":empty"): Selects all elements that have no children.
• $("p:empty"): Selects all elements matched by <p> that have no children.
• $("div[p]"): Selects all elements matched by <div> that contain an element matched by <p>.
• $("p[.myclass]"): Selects all elements matched by <p> that contain an element with a class of myclass.
• $("a[@rel]"): Selects all elements matched by <a> that have a rel attribute.
• $("input[@name=myname]"): Selects all elements matched by <input> that have a name value exactly equal to myname.
• $("input[@name^=myname]"): Selects all elements matched by <input> that have a name value beginning with myname.
• $("a[@rel$=self]"): Selects all elements matched by <p> that have a class value ending with bar
• $("a[@href*=domain.com]"): Selects all elements matched by <a> that have an href value containing domain.com.
• $("li:even"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that have an even index value.
• $("tr:odd"): Selects all elements matched by <tr> that have an odd index value.
• $("li:first"): Selects the first <li> element.
• $("li:last"): Selects the last <li> element.
• $("li:visible"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that are visible.
• $("li:hidden"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that are hidden.
• $(":radio"): Selects all radio buttons in the form.
• $(":checked"): Selects all checked boxex in the form.
• $(":input"): Selects only form elements (input, select, textarea, button).
• $(":text"): Selects only text elements (input[type=text]).
• $("li:eq(2)"): Selects the third <li> element
• $("li:eq(4)"): Selects the fifth <li> element
• $("li:lt(2)"): Selects all elements matched by <li> element before the third one; in other words, the first two <li> elements.
• $("p:lt(3)"): selects all elements matched by <p> elements before the fourth one; in other words the first three <p> elements.
• $("li:gt(1)"): Selects all elements matched by <li> after the second one.
• $("p:gt(2)"): Selects all elements matched by <p> after the third one.
• $("div/p"): Selects all elements matched by <p> that are children of an element matched by <div>.
• $("div//code"): Selects all elements matched by <code>that are descendants of an element matched by <div>.
• $("//p//a"): Selects all elements matched by <a> that are descendants of an element matched by <p>
• $("li:first-child"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that are the first child of their parent.
• $("li:last-child"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that are the last child of their parent.
• $(":parent"): Selects all elements that are the parent of another element, including text.
• $("li:contains(second)"): Selects all elements matched by <li> that contain the text second.

For more detailed documentation on jQuery Selectors visit the Jquery official documentation page about selectors.