title: How to subfilter a jquery object which is a subset of $(this)
body: <p>I've read the documentation over and over and I can't get why this doesn't work:</p>
  
  <p>From inside a function, calling the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>alert($(this).parent().parent().html());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>returns something looking like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="something1"&gt;
      &lt;div class="whereThisStarted"&gt;stuff&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="something2"&gt;stuff&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="somethingSpecial"&gt;stuff&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="something4"&gt;stuff&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to get "somethingSpecial".  It would seem to me that either of the following should work but they both return null.</p>
  
  <pre><code>alert($(this).parent().parent().children(".somethingSpecial").html());
  alert($(this).parent().parent().filter("div.somethingSpecial").html());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What's wrong with this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>