Those sort of selections are not specific to jQuery. Most DOM libraries have had...

oinksoft on Jan 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: You might not need jQuery

Those sort of selections are not specific to jQuery. Most DOM libraries have had them for a while, and browsers (IE8+) have provided it for some time as well in QSA: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document.qu...