parent vs closest

Question

Why does this work:

$(\'.button_30\').click(function(){
    $(this).closest(\'.portlet\').find(\'.portlet_content\').text(\"foo\");
});​

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Answer 1

parent() only looks one level up, you can try parents() to search all way up

$('.button_30').click(function(){
    $(this).parents('.portlet').find('.portlet_content').text("foo");
});​

you can see the documentation