What is the meaning of the character(~) in jquery or css selector?

[oranoos3000]

hi

would you please help me , what is meaning of the below jquery statement

$('~ span:first',this).text();

i dont understand meaning of the ~ in jquery selector


thanks very much for all your trouble

[Dormilich]

that’s the CSS3 selector for a (general) sibling (cf.)

[JKing]

~ is the next siblings selector. It will select all siblings matching the filter provided. In this case the filter is span:first.

Have a look at the jquery api docs for a more detailed explanation.

jquery api ~