Question

I bound a function as a closure to an anchor like this:

jQuery('#mydiv').find('#mya').bind('click', function(e){
    myotherfunction(e);
});

In my function myotherfunction(obj), obj is an event, how do I get the parent-Element?

Answer 1

With this:

jQuery(obj.target).parent();

You might want to refactor your code to this:

jQuery('#mya').bind('click', function(e){
    myotherfunction(e.target);
});

function myotherfunction(obj){
    var $parent = jQuery(obj).parent();
    ...
    ...
}

Best practices:

• obj is a bad name for the event variable.
• id should be unique so you can search by it only:
  jQuery('#mydiv').find('#mya') => jQuery('#mya')