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With a clear understanding of manipulating the set itself, we can augment our understanding of selecting elements by using filters that select elements that have unique relationships with other elements within the actual DOM. jQuery provides several selectors to do this. Some of these selectors are custom, while some are well known CSS expressions for selecting DOM elements.            ancestor descendant parent > child prev + next prev ~ siblings :nth-child(selector) :first-child :last-child :only-child :empty :has(selector) :parent Usage of these selector filters will select elements based on their relationship within the DOM as pertaining to other elements in the DOM. To demonstrate this concept, let's look at some code. Sample: sample28.html

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