Descendent or self selector in jQuery

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Published on 2010-04-09T09:16:53Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 9:23 UTC
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I want to search for all elements with class needle in all elements returned by jQuery('.haystack') and have tried jQuery('.haystack .needle'), but this doesn't seem to pick up the case where an element has both classes. Is there a selector that will do this?

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