If you want the parent as a jQuery object:
$('#something').parents('div').eq(0)
If you want it as a "raw" DOM element:
$('#something').parents('div')[0]
Note that parent() only returns the parent object, not the parent,
grandparent, great-grandparent, etc objects.
Karl Rudd
On 1/16/07, Chris Domigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> How would I select the first ancestor of a certain type? Eg if I want to
> select the first div that is found while searching up the DOM from an
> element.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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