How to get the children of the $(this) selector? I have a layout similar to this: <div id="..."><img src="..."></div> and would like to use a jQuery selector to select the child img inside the div on click. To get the div, I've got this selector: $(this) How can I get the child img using a selector? Answer: The jQuery constructor accepts a 2nd parameter called context which can be used to override the context of the selection. jQuery("img", this); Which is the same as using .find() like this: jQuery(this).find("img"); If the imgs you desire