Hey, If you are trying to get the parent of the 'close' button and fade that out, just use one of the following:
closest( expr ) parent( [expr] ) $(document).bind("click", function (e) { $(e.target).closest("li").toggleClass("hilight"); // will traverse the clicked element returning the first "li" which is parent of the element }); Best On Dec 21, 5:56 pm, heglandio <i...@simon-hegland.com> wrote: > Hi people > I need help with my navigation-system. My currently situation is the > following: > > I've got a "closer" on my website, a button, that allows a close- > function to the upper div-element, in which the closer seats. One > level higher. It's the only parent-element with a "closer" on the > website. > > My code: > > $('.closer').click(function () { > $('div:has(.closer)').fadeOut(2000); > }); > > It's really simple. Every div-element, that contains the closer-class, > in my case all of them, will have a fadeOut. And it works great. By > click on the closer-class the upper (...higher) parent-div will be > close. > > My problem. I've got an other function, that allows to fadeIn the same > div: > > $('.page1').click(function () { > $('#content, #philosopie, #kontakt, > #curriculumvitae').fadeOut > (2000); > $('#ueberuns').fadeIn(2000); > > }); > > The ID = #ueberuns is the same div as the upper one in the instruction > above! But it won't work well. Why? The meaning goes to the same Div? > I can't understand it. > > A solution would be: > > $('#ueberuns').fadeIn(2000); change to = > > $('div:has(.closer)').fadeIn(2000); > > It would work great, BUT (!) I've got other divs, layered one upon the > other, which are also got a fadeIn and the user will see all layered. > Terrible! :-) > > My first solution was quiet simple. I had for every "closer" a > seperate function, that response to seperate IDs etc. It works fine. > Why not? But I'm interested in a minimal code-use. ;-) > > My first idea was, to select by jquery-selectors the upper element, > like this: > > ...$('.closer < div').fadeOut(2000); it means in my mind = > the parent-element of .closer(class), in this case a div-element, > would get fade out. It doesn't work and I'm studying the selectors > better. ;-) Any Idea for that? Has got jquery any selector like this? > (by the way) > > Any Ideas for my problem? My idea is further to save code. It means: > one close-function for each of the layered divs and not seperate > functions, that blow up my code gigantically. > > regards