Question

i have html like this, when i click on LIKE button i want to know <div id="div17836463" how could i know that?

 <div class="MessageInfo">
        <div id="div17836463" class="Display">Display</div>
        <div class="Actions">
            <span><a class="like-Unlike" href="">Like</a></span> |
        </div>
    </div>

please check this : http://jsfiddle.net/mHJnH/2/

Answer 1

Assuming this is a reference to the a element:

var id = $(this).closest(".Actions").prev().attr("id");

The .closest() method climbs up the DOM tree to the first ancestor matching the selector (the div is the grandparent of the a element), and the .prev() method gets the immediately preceding element.