In this post I would like to share what are the different ways by which we can select a particular DOM element. There are numerous ways of selecting an element, lets focus on the important ways. Let us consider the following HTML code. <div class="myClass" myAttribute="myAttributeValue"> <span>This is the first span in div </span> <span class="mySpanClass">This is second span in div </span> </div> If you have to get the attribute value of myAttribute of the first div with class="myClass" You can write in two ways - One $("div.myClass").attr('myAttribute'); //output will be myAttributeValue Two $(".myClass").attr('myAttribute'); //output will be myAttributeValue The above second way is not safe if you have elements other than div (such as span,td etc ) with the same class name. Selection by attribute If you want to know the class of the div you can write t...