Question

I have a field like the following:

<div class="control-group">
    <label class="control-label" for="lname">Last Name</label>
    <div class="controls">
        <input class="span3" type="text" id="lname" name="lname" placeholder="Last Name" value=""/>
    </div>
</div>

I’m trying the following jquery to validate some input and add the error class if needed:

var div = $("#lname").parent("div.control-group");
....
div.removeClass("success");
div.addClass("error");

Ideally I need to loop through several input and select fields to do my validation.

My current code isn’t adding the error class. Any idea why?

Answer 1

You should use parents method instead of parent as

var div = $("#lname").parents("div.control-group");
div.removeClass("success");
div.addClass("error");