jquery select siblings 'until'

Question

I have a DOM in the form of

<input class="parent"></div>
<input class="child"></div>
<input class="child"></div>
<input class="parent"></div>
<input class="child"></div>
...

which I know is not Right and the right way to do this would be to reform the HTML, but lets say that is not possible.

How can I get jquery to select all children of one parent (that is select all .children until .parent)

Answer 1

jQuery 1.4 now has the .nextUntil(selector) function:

    $('div.parent').toggle(
        function() {
            $(this).nextUntil('div.parent').hide();
         },
        function() {
            $(this).nextUntil('div.parent').show();
        }
    );