JQuery, find parent

Question

$(\'#thisid\').parent(\'li\');
         


        

Answer 1

I prefer the 'closest' than 'parents'.

Parents travel up the DOM tree to the document's root element, adding each ancestor element to a temporary collection; it then filters that collection based on a selector if one is supplied.

where

Closest Travel up the DOM tree until it finds a match for the supplied selector.

Most important what they give in result:

Praents: Returned jQuery object contains zero or more elements for each element in the original set, in reverse document order.

Closest: Returned jQuery object contains zero or one element for each element in the original set, in document order

$('#thisid').closest('li');

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