jQuery parents()

Introduction

Return all ancestor elements of <span>:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.ancestors * {/*from   www  .ja va  2  s  .  c  o  m*/
  display: block;
  border: 2px solid lightgrey;
  color: lightgrey;
  padding: 5px;
  margin: 15px;
}
</style>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("span").parents().css({"color": "red", "border": "2px solid red"});
});
</script>
</head>

<body class="ancestors">body
  <div style="width:500px;">div
    <ul>ul
      <li>li
        <span>span</span>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

The parents() method returns all ancestor elements of the selected element.

An ancestor is a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on.

If the filter parameter is empty, this function will select all ancestors.

$(selector).parents(filter)

Parameter	Optional	Description
filter	Optional.	a selector expression to narrow down the search for ancestors To return multiple ancestors, separate each expression with a comma.

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