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How do you traverse the DOM in jQuery?

Entry JQuery
Quick Answer jQuery DOM traversal: .parent() gets the immediate parent; .parents() gets all ancestors; .children() gets direct children; .find() searches descendants; .siblings() gets same-level elements; .next()/.prev() gets adjacent siblings; .closest() finds the nearest matching ancestor. These let you navigate the DOM tree relative to a selected element.

Answer

Traversal: parent(), children(), find(), next(), prev(), siblings(), first(), last(), eq().
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