[jquery] How do I iterate through children elements of a div using jQuery?

I have a div and it has several input elements in it... I'd like to iterate through each of those elements. Ideas?

I don't think that you need to use each(), you can use standard for loop

var children = $element.children().not(".pb-sortable-placeholder");
for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
    var currentChild = children.eq(i);
    // whatever logic you want
    var oldPosition = currentChild.data("position");
}

this way you can have the standard for loop features like break and continue works by default

also, the debugging will be easier

It can be done this way as well:

$('input', '#div').each(function () {
    console.log($(this)); //log every element found to console output
});

It is also possible to iterate through all elements within a specific context, no mattter how deeply nested they are:

$('input', $('#mydiv')).each(function () {
    console.log($(this)); //log every element found to console output
});

The second parameter $('#mydiv') which is passed to the jQuery 'input' Selector is the context. In this case the each() clause will iterate through all input elements within the #mydiv container, even if they are not direct children of #mydiv.

If you need to loop through child elements recursively:

function recursiveEach($element){
    $element.children().each(function () {
        var $currentElement = $(this);
        // Show element
        console.info($currentElement);
        // Show events handlers of current element
        console.info($currentElement.data('events'));
        // Loop her children
        recursiveEach($currentElement);
    });
}

// Parent div
recursiveEach($("#div"));   

NOTE: In this example I show the events handlers registered with an object.

$('#myDiv').children().each( (index, element) => {
    console.log(index);     // children's index
    console.log(element);   // children's element
 });

This iterates through all the children and their element with index value can be accessed separately using element and index respectively.

children() is a loop in itself.

$('.element').children().animate({
'opacity':'0'
});