How to find the nearest common ancestors of two or more nodes?

Question

Users selects two or more elements in a HTML page. What i want to accomplish is to find those elements\' common ancestors (so body node would be the common ancestor if none

Answer 1

You should be able to use the jQuery .parents() function and then walk through the results looking for the first match. (Or I guess you could start from the end and go backwards until you see the first difference; that's probably better.)