Question

how i can check in this code that the parent in loop is span or div.

$('a img, span img').each(function(n){
var c= $(this).parent();
console.warn(c)
});

i want to know if this possible to check that find the parent tag is span or anchor in html

how i can check in this code that the parent in loop is span or div.

$('a img, span img').each(function(n){
var c= $(this).parent();
console.warn(c)
});

i want to know if this possible to check that find the parent tag is span or anchor in html

Answer 1

You can use is:

$('a img, span img').each(function(n){
    var c = $(this).parent();
    if(c.is("span, a")) {
        //It's a span or an anchor!
    }
});

The is method returns true if any of the selected elements match the selector. In this case, the selected element is the parent, and the selector looks for either a span or an a element.

Alternatively, you could use parent with a selector and check the length of the resulting object:

$('a img, span img').each(function(n){
    if($(this).parent("span, a").length) {
        //It's a span or an anchor!
    }
});

The is method is marginally faster though (don’t be misled by the apparently huge difference… the numbers are both quite low):