Get form input parent : parents « jQuery « JavaScript Tutorial

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
       var input = $(":submit").parent().css({background:"yellow", border:"3px red solid"});
    
       $('#result').text('jQuery matched ' + input.length + ' elements.');
        
    });
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
     <form><input type="submit" /></form>
     <div id="result"></div>


  </body>
</html>

30.77.parents
	30.77.1.	Get DIV parent count
	30.77.2.	Get form input parent
	30.77.3.	Get parents
	30.77.4.	Get parent with certain class
	30.77.5.	Returns true, because the parent of the input is a form element
	30.77.6.	parent(expr): filter the set of parent elements
	30.77.7.	Shows the parent of each element as (parent > child). Check the View Source to see the raw html.
	30.77.8.	parents(expr) gets elements containing the unique ancestors
	30.77.9.	Click to find all unique div parent elements of each span.