Selects all paragraphs, finds span elements inside these, and reverts the selection back to the paragraphs.

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ jQuery.fn.showTags = function (n) { jQuery.fn.showTags = function (n) { var tags = this.map(function () { return this.tagName; }) .get().join(", "); $("b:eq(" + n + ")").text(tags); return this; }; $("p").showTags(0) .find("span") .showTags(1) .css("background", "yellow") .end() .showTags(2) .css("font-style", "italic"); }); </script> <style> p, div { margin:1px; padding:1px; font-weight:bold; font-size:16px; } div { color:blue; } b { color:red; } </style> </head> <body> <p> Hi there <span>how</span> are you <span>doing</span>? </p> <p> This <span>span</span> is one of several <span>spans</span> in this <span>sentence</span>. </p> <div> Tags in jQuery object initially: <b></b> </div> <div> Tags in jQuery object after find: <b></b> </div> <div> Tags in jQuery object after end: <b></b> </div> </body> </html>
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