Jquery difference between searching 'children' and 'find'

Question

When is one preferred over the other when searching for nested DIvs?

Answer 1

Find is recursive, where children looks only 1 level deep in the DOM. Check out this: http://blog.ekini.net/2009/03/16/jquery-children-vs-find-which-is-faster/

Note: that is actually references a Stackoverflow post.

Either way, that should help answer your question. If you need to search more than one level use Find, if not use children as it is faster.

Answer 2

The .find() and .children() methods are similar, except that the latter only travels a single level down the DOM tree.

Source: http://api.jquery.com/children/