jQuery Traversing

Question

Why is the following alert 2 and not 1 ??

<div><p>1</p></div>
<div>2</div>
<script>
alert($("p").parent().siblings().eq(0).text());
</script>

Answer 1

When you use siblings() it selects all of them on that level but doesn't includes the one you're initially selecting. So in this case, you selected the <p> parent which is the first div listed. Now the only sibling is the second div with the number 2. So that would be at position 0.

Answer 2

thank you sir ! clean and to the point