get href attribute of enclosing link tag

Question

Having a little trouble on this one. I need a way using Jquery/JS to find the HREF attribute of the enclosing link tag:

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Answer 1

$("img.active").parent("a").attr("href") will get the direct parent's href attribute, assuming it's an anchor. If there's any depth of containing blocks between the image and the anchor, use instead $("img.active").closest("a").attr("href").