.select()

Executes a selector with the list as context.

Web module only.

list.select(selector)

list.select(selector, childrenOnly)

selector: a selector or any other valid first argument for $().
childrenOnly (optional): if set, only direct children of the context nodes are included in the list. Children of children will be filtered out. If omitted or not true, all descendants of the context will be included.
(return value): the new list containing the selected descendants.

Executes a selector with the list as context. list.select(selector, childrenOnly) is equivalent to $(selector, list, childrenOnly).

Returns a list of all list elements:

var parents = $('ol.myList').select('li', true);

Returns a list of all child elements:

var children = $('.myElements').select('*', true);