nearest ancestor node in jQuery

Question

In my javascript experience, I found that is a very common task \"searching the nearest ancestor of an element with some condition (tag name, class,...)\". Can the parents(

Answer 1

Adding to @nickf's answer:

jQuery 1.3 simplifyed this task with closest.

Given a DOM:

You can do:

$('#d').closest("div"); // returns [ div#b ]

[Closest returns a] set of elements containing the closest parent element that matches the specified selector, the starting element included.