Question

I have the following code structure:

<div></div>

<ul>
    <li></li>
    <li></li>
</ul>

<div></div>

<ul>
    <li></li>
    <li id="current"></li>
</ul>

Sorry I used HTML in my post and it hid DIV.

I am looking for a <DIV> immediately above the parent <UL>.

Answer 1

You could use either:

$('#current').parent() // goes to the closest parent - which is the <ul>
             .prev();  // now, starting at that <ul>
                       // we go to the previous html element which is <div>

//Could also be done:
$('#current').closest('ul')
             .prev();  // or .prev('div') - there's a lot of options