jQuery parent element inner HTML

Question

I am getting inner HTML of element by next way:

$(this).context.innerHTML

Then I am getting parent inner HTML:

$(this).parent().context.innerHTML

But this code returns same values. Any ideas what is wrong?

Answer 1

The context for both queries are the same, which in this case is the element that this represents. When you call parent() the context does not change. It is still the element that this represents.

You can specify the context of a query like this:

$("...", contextElement)

For more information visit:

• http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/#jQuery1 and
• http://api.jquery.com/context/

Answer 2

To get the contents of an element, then the contents of it's parent the jQuery markup would be

$(this).html();

and

$(this).parent().html();

http://api.jquery.com/html/