Thanks Dave I think you may be on to something. I think $("*:has(>
div.someClass)") would work. Won't be fast, but that's not a concern.
I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
On Oct 21, 12:40 pm, Dave Methvin <dave.meth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there anyway to write a custom filter which returns the parent
> > nodes of the selector? ie) div.someClass:parentNode or ancestor:
> > div.someClass would return the parent element of div.someClass.
>
> Not that I know of, but you might be able to use the :has selector if
> you know enough about the structure of the document.
>
> $("div.otherClass:has(div.someClass)")
>
> This might take some tweaking since it may return parents of parents.
