HTML Code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>immediate next only</title>
  <style>
    body { font-family: sans-serif; padding: 16px; max-width: 32rem; }
    p { margin: 6px 0; padding: 6px 10px; border: 1px solid #e2e8f0; border-radius: 6px; }
    .hi { background: #bbf; }
    #output { margin-top: 12px; padding: 12px; background: #e0f2fe; font-family: monospace; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <p class="prev">Prev A</p>
  <p>Immediate next</p>
  <p>Later sibling</p>
  <p class="prev">Prev B</p>
  <span>Not a p — breaks chain</span>
  <p>Not adjacent to Prev B</p>
  <div id="output"></div>
  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js"></script>
  <script>
    $("p.prev + p").addClass("hi");
    $("#output").text("Matched: " + $("p.prev + p").length + " (only immediate p after p.prev)");
  </script>
</body>
</html>

Lines: 0 | Characters: 0

Live Preview Auto-refresh on Run

Only immediate next sibling matches (Try It)