JQuery difference between searching 'children' and 'find'?

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Solution

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.

Problem

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

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