How to get event target's parent with jQuery?

Question

I use jQuery's event object to get the target's parent. The code is:

event.target.parentElement 

In Chrome it works, but in Firefox, it doesn't. I use alert() to print the output.

event.target is an URL in both Chrome and Firefox; but event.target.parentElement in Chrome is [Element object], and in Firefox it is null.

What should I do to solve this problem? I still wonder if IE will have this problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

To access the parent, you could do:

 var par = $(event.target).parent();