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(){ $("p").find("span").end().css("border", "2px red solid"); }); </script> <style>p { margin:10px; padding:10px; }</style> </head> <body> <p><span>Hello</span>, how are you?</p> </body> </html>
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