jQuery Traversing - Siblings

Siblings share the same parent.

With jQuery you can traverse sideways in the DOM tree to find siblings of an element.

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Traversing Sideways in The DOM Tree

There are many useful jQuery methods for traversing sideways in the DOM tree:

• siblings()
• next()
• nextAll()
• nextUntil()
• prev()
• prevAll()
• prevUntil()

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jQuery siblings() Method

The siblings() method returns all sibling elements of the selected element.
The following example returns all sibling elements of <h2>:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("h2").siblings();
});

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You can also use an optional parameter to filter the search for siblings.
The following example returns all sibling elements of <h2> that are <p> elements:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("h2").siblings("p");
});

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jQuery next() Method

The next() method returns the next sibling element of the selected element.
The following example returns the next sibling of <h2>:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("h2").next();
});

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jQuery nextAll() Method

The nextAll() method returns all next sibling elements of the selected element.
The following example returns all next sibling elements of <h2>:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("h2").nextAll();
});

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jQuery nextUntil() Method

The nextUntil() method returns all next sibling elements between two given arguments.
The following example returns all sibling elements between a <h2> and a <h6> element:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("h2").nextUntil("h6");
});

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jQuery prev(), prevAll() & prevUntil() Methods

The prev(), prevAll() and prevUntil() methods work just like the methods above but with reverse functionality: they return previous sibling elements (traverse backwards along sibling elements in the DOM tree, instead of forward).

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jQuery Traversing Reference

For a complete overview of all jQuery Traversing methods, please go to our jQuery Traversing Reference.