JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
by CME64
HTML
<div>
<span>secondprev</span><br/>
<span>firstprev</span>
<div></div>
<div id="errorDate">from here</div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<span>firstNext</span><br/>
<span>secondNext</span>
<div></div>
</div>
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#errorDate').nextAll('span:first').css('background-color','red');
$('#errorDate').prevAll('span:first').css('background-color','lime');
// the folloing only work if the span is directly next to your selection
$('#errorDate').next('span').css('background-color','yellow');
$('#errorDate').prev('span').css('background-color','yellow');
});