Below code explains about Transversing the DOM in JQuery.
$("div#home").prev("div");
// find the div previous in relation to the current div
$("div#home").next("ul");
// find the next ul element after the current div
$("div#home").parent();
// returns the parent container element of the current div
$("div#home").children("p");
// returns only the paragraphs found inside the current div