Use JQuery to select parent element of “this” (element clicked)

Question

I have a jQuery script that creates a carousel to rotate images left and right on user click. At first, I wasnt planning on putting more than one carousel on a single page, but

Answer 1

Inside of an event handler, the variable:

$(this)

will get you the calling element. From there, to get the containing div you can use the parent() function:

$(this).parent()

Use that to walk through the DOM.