jQuery parent of a parent

Question

I am currently trying to find the parent of a parent of an element. I have a link being clicked that is in a <td>, and I'd like to get the <tr> object.

Why wont "$(this).parent().parent()" work? What will?

Thanks,
Brendan

Edit: It appears an error in my syntax was throwing the whole thing off. "$(this).parent().parent()" does in fact work, but I wound up going with $(this).closest('tr')" because it seems like the most efficient solution.

Answer 1

The best way would probably be using closest:

$(this).closest('tr'); 

Check out the documentation:

Closest works by first looking at the current element to see if it matches the specified expression, if so it just returns the element itself. If it doesn't match then it will continue to traverse up the document, parent by parent, until an element is found that matches the specified expression. If no matching element is found then none will be returned.

Answer 2

It should work. You can also try $(this).parents(tag) , where tag is the tag you want to find.

For example:

$(this).parents("tr:first") 

Will find the closest tr "up the chain".