jQuery parent of a parent

Question

I am currently trying to find the parent of a parent of an element. I have a link being clicked that is in a , and I\'d like to get the

Answer 1

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