title: Is there such thing as a relative jQuery selector?
body: <p>I have a reference to a jquery object with the <code>this</code> variable. I am looking for a way of applying the child selector to the object.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using <code>$(this).find('table &gt; tbody &gt; tr &gt; td')</code>, but what I'm aiming for is something more like <code>$('[Value of $(this) goes here somehow] &gt; table &gt; tbody &gt; tr &gt; td')</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I realise that I can do <code>$(this).children('table').children('tbody').children('tr').children('td')</code>, but I was wondering if there was some syntactic sugar I could use here.</p>