jQuery find() until?

Question

I'm going through a form checking values but I need to stop before a specific element (#before)

$('#before').closest('form').find('.reqd').each(function() {
    //chacks input
});

I need this to stop before or even better after it reaches #before. I read about nextUntil() but it seems only to work for sibling elements. I need to check all .reqd elements in the form before #before

I bet I'm missing some really simple way to do it.

It's hard to tell what you want. Like BNL said, some html would be helpful. If you want the element before `#before` you could just do `$('#before').prev()` — aziz punjani, Sep 27 '11 at 18:19

Kevin B · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-27T18:43:30.867

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returning false within an each loop will exit the each loop.

$('#before').closest('form').find('.reqd').each(function() {
  // your code here
  if (this.id === "before") {
    // end each loop after processing #before
    return false;
  }
});

edited Sep 27 '11 at 18:43

answered Sep 27 '11 at 18:21

Kevin B

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but #before might not be of .reqd – A-OK Sep 27 '11 at 23:45
ok, I did it by simply find(':input') and then checking if it hasClass('.reqd'). Thanks for not asking me to post HTML! :) – A-OK Sep 28 '11 at 00:04

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