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

Use jQuery to get the child element, and jQuery to address the parent

element = $('#childID').parent();

Note: Yes, this is similar to Pekka's answer. It was meant to be humorous in that regard. If you don't find it humorous.....