Find the very next sibling of each paragraph. Keep only the ones with a class "selected".

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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(){ $("p").next(".selected").css("background", "yellow"); }); </script> </head> <body> <p>Hello</p> <p class="selected">Hello Again</p> <div><span>And Again</span></div> </body> </html>
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