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

This is a generalized take on lonesomeday's answer. Instead of only two elements it will take a full JQuery object.

function CommonAncestor(jq) {
    var prnt = $(jq[0]);
    jq.each(function () { 
        prnt = prnt.parents().add(prnt).has(this).last(); 
    });
    return prnt;
}