We'd really need to see your HTML code, but if you want to get the parent of an object.
Let's say you have HTML code like this: <div> <p> <b>this is my paragraph</b> </p> </div> You want to get the immediate parent of all P tags: $('p').parent(); or you want to get a div that is a parent higher up in the chain: $('p').parent('div'); -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of noon Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:55 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] new to jquery Hello, i've been writing javascript for a while now. So, as you can imagine I am struggling just a bit. I browsed a few of the beginner tutorials and didn't see what I was looking for. I understand that methods like .is or .hide are special to the jquery library and you can't access these using regular DOM elements. But I don't want to type $(this.parentNode.parentNode) every time I want to do something to it. Assigning var target = $(this.parentNode.parentNode); still doesn't let me use jquery methods against target. Can someone point me in the right direction here?