A selection using a jQuery collection of all span tags. Only spans within p tags are changed to red while others are left blue.

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> span { color: blue; } </style> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> </head> <body> <p><span>Hello</span>, how are you?</p> <p>Me? I'm <span>good</span>.</p> <div>Did you <span>eat</span> yet?</div> <script> var $spans = $('span'); $("p").find( $spans ).css('color','red'); </script> </body> </html>
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