Selecting element by id from jQuery collection

How to select an element by id from a jquery collection?

e.g.

var jQObj = $("div");

How to access a div with id say div_1_1 from the collection jQObj?

Thanks

It depends on the structure within jQQbj.
If #div_1_1 is on the "top level" you need to invoke .filter():

var $myDiv = jQQj.filter('#div_1_1');

wheres if div_1_1 is somewhere as childnode invoke .find():

var $myDiv = jQQj.find('#div_1_1');

Reference: .filter(), .find()

Try this:

$("#div_1_1", jQObj);

var divs = $('div');
var myDiv = divs.filter('#singleDiv');

Why do you want to filter it in that way? Is that block of code in the middle of a mad jQuery chain you don't want to break?

Just curious because ID selectors are fast (especially compared to running your collection through $.fn.filter) so I don't quite get the aversion to re-querying the DOM.

I put up a quick jsperf test here.