How to get the first parent that has a certain CSS property using jQuery?

Question

I need to get the first parent that has position:relative. Something like in the example below but my real content will be dynamically generated.

<div id="parent1" style="position:relative">
    <div id="parent2">
        <div id="my-element" style="position:absolute"></div>
    </div>
</div>

Do you know a simple way to do this using jQuery?

Answer 1

You can filter the set of parents(), and grab the first element matching your filter:

$('#my-element')
    .parents()
    .filter(function() { 
        return $(this).css('position') == 'relative'; 
    }).first();

Demo (Works with classes, too)