How to find the first parent element in jQuery?

Posted by : Jebastin Sunday, 27 October 2013

To find the first parent element using jQuery.

HTML:

  1. <div class="container1">
  2.    <div class="container2">
  3.       <div class="container3">
  4.          <div class="container4">
  5.              <div class="element">
  6.              ...
  7.          </div>
  8.       </div>
  9.    </div>
  10. </div>

Solution:

  1. $(".element").parents();
will give all parents of .element(including html and body)
DEMO

To find any specific parent, suppose container1 then
  1. $('.element').parents('.container1')
DEMO

jQuery .parents() generally find all parents, but if you passed a selector then it will search for that.

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