# .nextAll()

Categories: Traversing > Tree Traversal

## .nextAll( [selector] ) Returns: jQuery

Description: Get all following siblings of each element in the set of matched elements, optionally filtered by a selector.

- #### version added: 1.2.nextAll( [selector] )

  selectorA 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: Locate all the divs after the first and give them a class.

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

      div { width: 80px; height: 80px; background: #abc;
            border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px; float: left; }
      div.after { border-color: red; }
      </style>
      <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
      <div>first</div>
      <div>sibling<div>child</div></div>
      <div>sibling</div>

      <div>sibling</div>
    <script>$("div:first").nextAll().addClass("after");</script>

    </body>
    </html>

#### Demo:

#### Example: Locate all the paragraphs after the second child in the body and give them a class.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
      <style>
      div, p { width: 60px; height: 60px; background: #abc;
               border: 2px solid black; margin: 10px; float: left; }
      .after { border-color: red; }
      </style>
      <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc2.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
      <p>p</p>

      <div>div</div>
      <p>p</p>
      <p>p</p>
      <div>div</div>

      <p>p</p>
      <div>div</div>
    <script>
        $(":nth-child(1)").nextAll("p").addClass("after");
    </script>

    </body>
    </html>

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