To be fair, that's a pretty odd way to write jQuery, which is designed to be chained. It could be rewritten as: $('.nH .if') .children().eq(1)

To be fair, that's a pretty odd way to write jQuery, which is designed to be chained. It could be rewritten as: $('.nH .if') .children().eq(1) .children() .children().eq(1) .children().eq(1) But if you were just pointing out how brittle it is, then yes, that's still apparent.