Finds all divs that are siblings after the element with #prev as its id. Notice the span isn't selected since it is not a div and the "niece" isn't selected since it is a child of a sibling, not an actual sibling.

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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(){ $("#prev ~ div").css("border", "3px groove blue"); }); </script> <style> div,span { display:block; width:80px; height:80px; margin:5px; background:#bbffaa; float:left; font-size:14px; } div#small { width:60px; height:25px; font-size:12px; background:#fab; } </style> </head> <body> <div>div (doesn't match since before #prev)</div> <span id="prev">span#prev</span> <div>div sibling</div> <div>div sibling <div id="small">div niece</div></div> <span>span sibling (not div)</span> <div>div sibling</div> </body> </html>
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