How can I find a specific ancestor DOM element using jQuery?

How can I find a specific ancestor DOM element using jQuery? 3 Mar 2015

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I need to find a specific ancestor element (parent, grandparent, etc) which MAY be located FEW LEVELS above the given (child / descendant) element in the HTML DOM tree. The specific element I am looking for is marked with a special CLASS, i.e. .

> ... class = "parent" ...

I'd like to use jQuery to locate that ancestor element starting from one of its descendant elements. Thanks!

Tags: javascript, jquery

Edited Feb 28'15 at 23:44

alex

Created Feb 21'15 at 01:19

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I've found an answer.

Need to use function ".closest". For example:

<div class="parent">
   <div>
      <div class="child"></div>
   </div>
</div>
<script> var oParent =  $('.child').closest('.parent'); </script>

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Edited Mar 03'15 at 05:41

alex

Created Feb 21'15 at 01:22

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alex Feb 24'15 at 16:25

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Good answer

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