> I am fairly new to jQuery so excuse me if this is a somewhat dumb
> question. I have a click function applied to all my links with the
> class "delete". How do I select the parent div of this link? I have
> tried the code below with no success. Thank you.
>
> <div class = 'grey'>
> <a href = '#' class = 'delete'>Hide my parent div</a>
> </div>
>
> <script>
>
> $(".delete").click(function() {
>
> $(this + ":parent").toggle("slow");
>
> });
>
> </script>
If you know the immediate parent is the node you want you can just use
the "parent" method:
var parent = $(this).parent();
Depending on the markup sometimes you need to be more specific:
var greyDiv = $(this).parents('div.grey:first');
Mike
