Complex CSS selector for parent of active child [duplicate]

Answer 1

Late to the party again but for what it's worth it is possible using jQuery to be a little more succinct. In my case I needed to find the

parent tag for a tag contained in the child
• . jQuery has the :has selector so it's possible to identify a parent by the children it contains (updated per @Afrowave's comment ref: https://api.jquery.com/has-selector/):

  $("ul").has("#someId")
  

  will select the ul element that has a child element with id someId. Or to answer the original question, something like the following should do the trick (untested):

  $("li").has(".active")