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nth-child(n) - Nth child in jQuery

How to select a specific child of the parent element in jQuery?

To select a specific child of the parent element, nth child selector can be used. 

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
     $("#div2 p:nth-child(2)").css("background", "red");
 </script>

Above code snippet will select the 2^nd paragraph (p) element that is inside the div element whose id is “div2” and will change the background color as red.