It should be .parents
$(this).parents('div.popup:first')
On Feb 28, 9:05 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote:
> Assuming that the cancel link has an id of 'cancel':
>
> How about:
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
>
> $('#cancel').click(function() {
> $(this).parent('div.popup:first')
> });
>
> });
>
> Not sure what you want to do with the parent div
> when you locate it...
>
> untested, buy may work...
>
> hth,
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
>
> Behalf Of riotbrrd
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:47 PM
> To: jQuery (English)
> Subject: [jQuery] How to find a parent
>
> I have a bunch of Divs with class ".popup". Each div is different in what it
> contains; some are simple, some are pretty complex, containing tables, other
> divs, etc..
>
> If I have a link, for example,"Cancel", within that Div, and the only thing
> that I know about Cancel is that 1) it has a parent div.popup somewhere up
> the tree (no idea how many levels), and 2) if I go backwards up the tree
> from Cancel, the first div.popup I encounter will be the right one, how can
> I go about finding the right parent div.popup? I'd like to just attach a
> handler that starts with "this" (meaning the Cancel link) and finds the
> correct div.popup up the tree.
>
> Hope this is question is clear. Thanks!
> -Kim
