JQuery find first parent element with specific class prefix

Answer 1

Jquery later allowed you to to find the parents with the .parents() method.

Hence I recommend using:

var $div = $('#divid').parents('div[class^="div-a"]');

This gives all parent nodes matching the selector. To get the first parent matching the selector use:

var $div = $('#divid').parents('div[class^="div-a"]').eq(0);

For other such DOM traversal queries, check out the documentation on traversing the DOM.

Answer 2

Use .closest() with a selector:

var $div = $('#divid').closest('div[class^="div-a"]');