Question

How to get all element parents using jquery? i want to save these parents in a variable so i can use later as a selector.
such as <div><a><img id='myImg'/></a></div>
GetParents(‘myImg’); will return ‘div a’ something like that

Answer 1

/// Get an array of all the elements parents:

allParents = $('#myElement').parents('*') 

/// Get the nested selector through an element’s parents:

function GetParents(id) {     var parents = $('#' + id).parents('*');     var selector = '';     for (var i = parents.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {         selector += parents[i].tagName + ' ';     }      selector += '#' + id;      return selector; } 

GetParents(‘myImage’) will return your nested selector: HTML BODY DIV A #myImage

Note sure why you’d want this but its reuseable as a selector.