Vanilla JavaScript .closest without jQuery

Question

I\'m working on an application that only has jQuery 1.1 installed which dosn\'t support the .closest method.

My script currently looks like this:

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Answer 1

Modern browsers have the Element.closest() method.

Example:

document.querySelector('.navPanel img').closest('td')

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/closest

Here you can check which browsers have built-in support: https://caniuse.com/#feat=element-closest

When there is no support in the browser the following polyfill could be used: https://github.com/jonathantneal/closest