jquery get father of element

Question

I\'ve got an element which resides inside a div. I\'d like to get the div by the child\'s ID, is this possible? if so how?

Thank you!

Answer 1

If you are not looking for the immediate parent, you can also use:

$('#childID').closest("tr");

Where tr is a selector for the parent you're trying to find. This is useful if you aren't sure of the depth of the hierarchy.