JQuery: Get the parent element id of a clicked element

Question

I have a div like this:

    x
         


        

Answer 1

This works fine:

$('a.popupCloseClass').click(function() {
    var id = $(this).parent().attr('id');
});​

JSFiddle Demo

You should just use this instead of the way you are getting the ID and then trying to use it as a selector (you were missing the # before the ID):