jQuery#children() only returns the immediate children of the element. If you want to dig deeper, you should use jQuery#find()
$('#header2').find('.menu_head'); // returns all divs with the class "menu_head" within the div with id "header2". -Hector On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:57 PM, chitgoks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > by the way, the sample html above is only 1 sub level. i am going to > place in a lot of sub-sub menus so my issue is how to traverse to all > children way down the tree that have the <p> tag and class "menu_head"