JS/jQuery: Get depth of element?

Question

What\'s the easiest way to get the depth of an element in pure JavaScript or jQuery? By \"depth\" I mean how many elements deep is it nested, or how many ancestors does it h

Answer 1

An additional note. If you want to get the depth relative to a certain context you can do:

var depth = $("#my-element","#ContextContainerID").parents("ul").length;

Above, I'm searching for how many UL's are within the container #ContextContainerID