jQuery Genealogy

A fun jQuery plugin for your (or for your element's) extended relatives.

Supported Methods

• el.grandchildren()

  All of the element's children's children.

• el.greatGrandchildren()

  All of the element's grandchildren's children.

• el.grandparent()

  The element's parent's parent.

• el.greatGrandparent()

  The element's grandparent's parent.

• el.aunts(), el.uncles()

  All of the element's parent's siblings.

• el.prevAunt(), el.prevUncle()

  The element directly before the element's parent.

• el.prevAunts(), el.prevUncles()

  All of the element's parent's siblings that come before the element in the document, returned in reverse document order (closest to the original element first).

• el.nextAunt(), el.nextUncle()

  The element directly after the element's parent.

• el.nextAunts(), el.nextUncles()

  All of the element's parent's siblings that come after the element in the document, returned in document order (closest to the original element first).

• el.cousins()

  All of the element's aunts and uncles's children.

• el.prevCousins()

  All of the element's aunts and uncles's children that come before the element in the document, returned in reverse document order (closest to the original element first).

• el.nextCousins()

  All of the element's aunts and uncles's children that come after the element in the document, returned in document order (closest to the original element first).

• el.nieces(), el.nephews()

  All of the element's siblings' children.

• el.prevNieces(), el.prevNephews()

  All of the element's siblings' children that come before the element in the document, returned in reverse document order (closest to the original element first).

• el.nextNieces(), el.nextNephews()

  All of the element's siblings' children that come after the element in the document, returned in document order (closest to the original element first).

Less-Useful Methods Provided for Consistency

• el.brothers(), el.sisters()

  All of the element's siblings.

• el.father(), el.mother()

  The element's parent.

About

Inspired by one of John Resig's offhand remarks.

Please submit bug reports on GitHub issues or send me a note at ben@benalpert.com if you have any questions or feature suggestions.