Question

I have both jQuery objects to the ancestor parent and the child element.

$ancestor = ...;
$child = ...;

How do I get the distance between the two? I.e. how many elements are in this ancestry chain?

Answer 1

To get the elements between two other elements including those elements:

var $els = $child.parentsUntil($ancestor).andSelf()

Or to just get a number of how many elements are there in between:

var elsInBetween = $child.parentsUntil($ancestor).length - 1