Question

consider the following html structure:

<div>
     <div class="top">
        <div id="id1">123</div>
     <div>

     <div class="top">
        <div id="id2">123</div>
     <div>
</div>

Now I want to pick the container on the basis of class=”top” and id=”id2″ in such a way that i get the container with class top. How can I do that? I would like to have some selector for that.

P.S: the id i am looking for is not necessarily to be an immediate parent of the class top.

Answer 1

Is this what you’re looking for?

$('#id2').closest('.top')

It will start with the ID and travel up until it finds the class top.