Do you know how jQ traverses to find the closest match? Does it go down all the way to the bottom of the DOM, then up?
Or does it go up one, down one, up two, down two, etc., until it finds a match? -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mkmanning Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:23 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to find a parent It's probably worth mentioning that jQuery 1.3 also has a new 'closest' method that would achieve this: $('#cancel').closest('div.popup') On Mar 1, 2:57 am, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > Glad we could help! I was close anyway! :o) > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] > On > > Behalf Of riotbrrd > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:58 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to find a parent > > You guys rock! thanks. > > So, .parents works, .parent does not. I think the reason is > this: .parent only finds the single parent immediately up the tree, > but the div I'm looking for is actually several nodes up. The node > that .parent finds is not a div.popup, so I get no object back. > > Thanks again! > -Kim > > On Feb 28, 9:33 pm, "Rick Faircloth" <r...@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: > > Hmmm...after looking at the docs, it would seem "parent" would be > > more appropriate since Kim is looking for the first parent of the > > link '#cancel'. > > > Why would you think it should be "parents" which would return more > > than the first parent. > > > Am I misunderstanding something? > > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] > > On > > > Behalf Of Rick Faircloth > > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:26 AM > > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to find a parent > > > Thanks for the tip! > > > Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] > > On Behalf Of mkmanning > > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:18 AM > > To: jQuery (English) > > Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to find a parent > > > 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- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -
