Find html element nearest to position (relative or absolute)

Question

Given absolute or relative position (top & left) is there any way to get the nearest html element to these co-ordinates?

Or alternately, is there any way to craf

Answer 1

Or try the original jQuery function offsetparent(). From this page comes the next example:

$( "li.item-a" ).offsetParent().css( "background-color", "red" );