Another awesome feature of jQuery 1.4 that will be quite handy is the has method. This method will find if a an element contains a certain other element class or whatever it is you are looking for and do anything you want to them.
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$("input").has(".email").addClass("email_icon");
In the above code we will look through all inputs that have the class email and add the class email_icon.