Check if an element is a child of a parent

Question

I have the following code.

Answer 1

If you have an element that does not have a specific selector and you still want to check if it is a descendant of another element, you can use jQuery.contains()

jQuery.contains( container, contained )
Description: Check to see if a DOM element is a descendant of another DOM element.

You can pass the parent element and the element that you want to check to that function and it returns if the latter is a descendant of the first.