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jQuery Traversing - Ancestors

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:14 am
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jQuery Traversing - Ancestors


With jQuery you can traverse up the DOM tree to
find ancestors of an element.
An ancestor is a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, and so
on.

Traversing Up the DOM Tree
Three useful jQuery methods for traversing up the DOM tree are:

parent()
parents()
parentsUntil()


jQuery parent() Method
The parent() method returns the direct parent element of the selected element.
This method only traverse a single level up the DOM tree.
The following example returns the direct parent element of each <span>
elements:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){  $("span").parent();});
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jQuery parents() Method
The parents() method returns all ancestor elements of the selected element,
all the way up to the document's root element (<html>).
The following example returns all ancestors of all
<span> elements:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){  $("span").parents();});
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You can also use an optional parameter to filter the search for ancestors.
The following example returns all ancestors of all <span> elements that are <ul>
elements:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){  $("span").parents("ul");});
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jQuery parentsUntil() Method
The parentsUntil() method returns all ancestor elements between two given
arguments.
The following example returns all ancestor elements
between a <span> and a <div> element:

Example

$(document).ready(function(){  $("span").parentsUntil("div");});
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jQuery Exercises

Test Yourself With Exercises

Exercise:
Use a jQuery method to get the direct parent of a <span> element.


$("span").();



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jQuery Traversing Reference
For a complete overview of all jQuery Traversing methods, please go to our
jQuery Traversing Reference.













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Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery ... estors.asp