JS/jQuery: Get depth of element?

Question

What's the easiest way to get the depth of an element in pure JavaScript or jQuery? By "depth" I mean how many elements deep is it nested, or how many ancestors does it have.

Answer 1

How about:

$('#my-element').parents().length

Answer 2

An additional note. If you want to get the depth relative to a certain context you can do:

var depth = $("#my-element","#ContextContainerID").parents("ul").length;

Above, I'm searching for how many UL's are within the container #ContextContainerID