I think what you are looking for is .children()
$('div[id=hover_menu]').hover_menu( $(this).children('li') ) Eridius wrote: > > I am trying to learn the working of making a intergrated plugin(with using > jQuery.fn.plugin method). I thought a good start would be a simple > hover_menu. Now my understanding it that the "this" object points to the > object it is called on so if i did $('div[id=hover_menu]').hover_menu() > that inside the function "this" would be the same as > $('div[id=hover_menu]'), would that be correct? My real question is what > if i want to do something to that and then do something to all the <li>'s > after that, how would i grab all the <li>'s without passing the search > parameter to the function? Is thier a way to append to the search so i > could do ths.whatever('<li>') which would then grab all the <li>'s under a > div with id of hover_menu? This is only if this = > $('div[id=hover_menu]'), if not then i need to figure that out first and > then this issue. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Making-An-Intergrated-Plugin-tf4263097s15494.html#a12132522 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.