jQuery: selecting grandparents

Question

Is there a better way to select grandparent elements in jQuery in order to avoid this ?

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Answer 1

In addition to parents(), as they've said, you should also check out closest(). Read the comparison in the documentation there, but its main differences are that it searches for only one result, and it includes $(this) in what it searches (could get the thing you're searching from if you're not specific enough). Pros and cons.