I am currently trying to find the parent of a parent of an element. I have a link being clicked that is in a <td>, and I'd like to get the <tr> object.
Why wont "$(this).parent().parent()" work? What will?
Thanks,
Brendan
Edit: It appears an error in my syntax was throwing the whole thing off. "$(this).parent().parent()" does in fact work, but I wound up going with $(this).closest('tr')" because it seems like the most efficient solution.
The best way would probably be using closest:
$(this).closest('tr');
Closest works by first looking at the current element to see if it matches the specified expression, if so it just returns the element itself. If it doesn't match then it will continue to traverse up the document, parent by parent, until an element is found that matches the specified expression. If no matching element is found then none will be returned.
It should work. You can also try $(this).parents(tag) , where tag is the tag you want to find.
For example:
$(this).parents("tr:first")
Will find the closest tr "up the chain".
That should work... you might try
$(this).parents(':eq(1)');
The .parents(selector) says get all ancestors that match the selector
and the :eq(1) says find the oneth (zero-indexed, so the second) element in the list
This snippet has performed for me in the past:
$(this).parent().parent();
Post some code for us to see if there might be another problem somewhere...
Try wrapping the $(this).parent() into an jQuery object like $($(this).parent()) I often find the need to do this to make sure I have a valid jquery object. From there you should be able to get a hold of the parents parent, or using the prev() perhaps.