title: jquery - select the next item of this in each() function
body: <p>I want to select the next element of this in each() function. check out the code comments</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(function(){
      var selects = $('body').find('span');
      selects.each(function(index,el){
          if(index==0){
              //remove the next span of this, which is span2 
          }
  
      });
  }); 
  
  
      &lt;body&gt;
          &lt;div&gt;
              &lt;span&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;span&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;div&gt;
              &lt;span&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;  
      &lt;/body&gt;
  </code></pre>