Use jquery prev() method to find the previous element of the same level_jquery

Retrieve each paragraph and find the previous sibling element with the class name "selected":

$("p").prev(".selected")

The

.prev() method allows us to search the DOM tree for the previous sibling elements of these elements and construct a new jQuery object with the matching element.

The

.prev() method finds the previous element

that is the sibling of the current element.