How to recursively search all parentNodes

Question

I want to know, how to find out recursively all parent nodes of an element. Suppose i have following snippet

Hello

Answer 1

You can use jQuery closest() method to get the closest ahref:

$("#your-element").closest("a").css("color", "red");

Or you can have a look at the parentsUntil method:

$("#your-element").parentsUntil("#yourWrapper", "a").first().css("color", "red");

Try it out here: http://www.lunarailways.com/demos/parents.html