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

If you have any sort of id/class for the parent, you can use parents() but that will give you all parents up to the < body > unless you filter() or stop it some other way like

$(this).parents('.myClass');

Hope this helps someone :)