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 , and I\'d like to get the

Answer 1

This snippet has performed for me in the past:

$(this).parent().parent(); 

Post some code for us to see if there might be another problem somewhere...

Answer 2

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 3

That should work... you might try

$(this).parents(':eq(1)');

The .parents(selector) says get all ancestors that match the selector

and the :eq(1) says find the oneth (zero-indexed, so the second) element in the list