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<html><head><style>.siblings * { display: block; border: 2px solid lightgrey; color: lightgrey; padding: 5px; margin: 15px;}</style><script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script><script>$(document).ready(function(){ $("li.start").prevAll(".first").css({"color": "red", "border": "2px solid red"});});</script></head><body><div style="width:500px;" class="siblings"> <ul>ul (parent) <li class="first">li (the previous sibling of li with class name "start")</li> <li>li (the previous sibling of li with class name "start")</li> <li class="first">li (the previous sibling of li with class name "start")</li> <li class="start">li (sibling with class name "start")</li> <li>li (sibling)</li> <li>li (sibling)</li> </ul> </div><p>In this example, we narrow down the search result by only returning elements with class name "first", that are previous siblings of the li element with class name "start".</p></body><!-- Mirrored from www.w3schools.com/jquery/tryit.asp?filename=tryjquery_traversing_prevall2 by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2014], Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:06:21 GMT --></html>