want to add padding to a td with jquery

Question

I need to find td within a div and add a class to all the td's within that div, how can I do that with jquery?

Answer 1

$("#myDiv td").addClass("myClass");

Answer 2

jQuery selectors are based on CSS selectors. a " " (space) inbetween selectors finds all children of the parent node (recursively).

Therefore:

$('#myDiv td')

First finds #mydiv, then get all the descendants (recursively finds the children), and then checks if they are 'td', filtering out the rest.

If you wanted to apply the class just to the immediate children of '#mydiv':

$('#myDiv > td')