Assuming I have a selector for a text node in jQuery, how can I get the parent node?
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for a jQuery object, or
for a regular DOM object.
You might also use
.closest('element_you_want')for more flexibility.As cletus points out in comments, if you want to grab an actual textNode and work upward from there, things do get a bit dicier than a vanilla jQuery selector. It can be done, but you have to look for nodeType 3. This answer may help with that part.