Question

I have a div which is defined via a this. Imagine it is the var div below:

<td itemid='desired number'>
  <div>div 1</div>
  <div class="action">div 2</div>
</td>

Given the var div how can I work out the itemid attribute of the td which contains it. Note, I do not want a solution which directly accesses the itemid attribute, it has to the itemid which is containing div 2.

var div = $('.action')

I’ve tried using parent() with no success.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try

var itemidValue = $('.action').parent('td').attr('itemid');

Proof of concept: http://jsfiddle.net/AwM56/