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Shaun
Shaun

Reputation: 2181

Finding id of div that is a parent somewhere up the chain?

If you have a click function for a link in a div, and want to know the id of a div that the click div is a child of (maybe 3rd child, maybe 5th child), is this the way to get it (it's working, but I'm wondering if there's a better way if you know the class of the parent?)

<div class="cont" id="c_22">
    <div>
        <div>         
            <div class="del"><a href="#">DELETE</a></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

This within click function...

alert($(this).closest('.cont').attr('id'))

Sometimes the "del" div has more divs surrounding it, so I can't rely on going up a certain number of divs. The inner divs have other stuff in them, but I've left it out to keep things easy.

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (2)

uma
uma

Reputation: 2952

I think that It will help you

$(".cont a").on('click', function(){
  console.log($("a").parent().closest('.cont').attr('id'))
});

Upvotes: 1

Milind Anantwar
Milind Anantwar

Reputation: 82241

You have already used one of the best way of doing it. You can also use .parents():

 $(this).parents('.cont').attr('id')

Upvotes: 2

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