search children recursively

Hi All,

This seems like it should be really simple, but it has escaped me.

I have a jquery object and I want to start there and search ALL of it's children recursively using a selector.

EG.

$(this).parent().parent().children('.targetClass').each(.....

My problem appears to be that .children only searches the immediate children, not the entire subtree under the node.

any advice?

Thanks,
Dan