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Posted August 12, 2017 9:49pm by

What is the difference between a descendant and a child.

I am mixed up in the jQuery introduction

1 Answer

August 12, 2017 11:23pm

Look at the DOM like a family tree (what the difference in family between child and descendant?)

Code example:

<section>
  <div class="child-of-section    descendant-of-section">
      <p class="descendant-of-section">
      </p>
      <p class="i-am-also-descendant-of-section">
     </p>
   </div> 
   <p id="i-am-also-a-child-of-section   descendant-of-section">
    </p>
</section>