# Descendant Selector (“ancestor descendant”)

Categories: Selectors > Hierarchy

## descendant selector

#### version added: 1.0jQuery('ancestor descendant')

- ancestor
    Any valid selector.
  descendant
    A selector to filter the descendant elements.

Description: Selects all elements that are descendants of a given ancestor.

A descendant of an element could be a child, grandchild, great-grandchild, and so on, of that element.

### Example:

#### Finds all input descendants of forms.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
      <style>

      body { font-size:14px; }
      form { border:2px green solid; padding:2px; margin:0;
             background:#efe; }
      div { color:red; }
      fieldset { margin:1px; padding:3px; }
      </style>
      <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
      <form>
        <div>Form is surrounded by the green outline</div>
        <label>Child:</label>
        <input name="name" />

        <fieldset>
          <label>Grandchild:</label>
          <input name="newsletter" />
        </fieldset>

      </form>
      Sibling to form: <input name="none" />
    <script>$("form input").css("border", "2px dotted blue");</script>

    </body>
    </html>

#### Demo: