Description: Get all following siblings of each element in the set of matched elements, optionally filtered by a selector.
.nextAll( [ selector ] )
version added: 1.2
selector
A string containing a selector expression to match elements against.
Given a jQuery object that represents a set of DOM elements, the .nextAll() method allows us to search through the successors of these elements in the DOM tree and construct a new jQuery object from the matching elements.
The method optionally accepts a selector expression of the same type that we can pass to the $() function. If the selector is supplied, the elements will be filtered by testing whether they match it.
Consider a page with a simple list on it:
<ul> <li>list item 1</li> <li>list item 2</li> <li class="third-item">list item 3</li> <li>list item 4</li> <li>list item 5</li> </ul>
If we begin at the third item, we can find the elements which come after it:
$('li.third-item').nextAll().css('background-color', 'red');
The result of this call is a red background behind items 4 and 5. Since we do not supply a selector expression, these following elements are unequivocally included as part of the object. If we had supplied one, the elements would be tested for a match before they were included.
Examples
Example 1
Locate all the divs after the first and give them a class.Example 1 - Full source:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("div:first").nextAll().addClass("after"); }); </script> <style> div { width: 80px; height: 80px; background: #abc; border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px; float: left; } div.after { border-color: red; } </style> </head> <body> <div>first</div> <div>sibling<div>child</div></div> <div>sibling</div> <div>sibling</div> </body> </html>
Example 2
Locate all the paragraphs after the second child in the body and give them a class.Example 2 - Full source:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $(":nth-child(1)").nextAll("p").addClass("after"); }); </script> <style> div, p { width: 60px; height: 60px; background: #abc; border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px; float: left; } .after { border-color: red; } </style> </head> <body> <p>p</p> <div>div</div> <p>p</p> <p>p</p> <div>div</div> <p>p</p> <div>div</div> </body> </html>
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