Question

I need to get the parent div of the hyperlink clicked. In the example below, this would be '.link-container'. However, this.parent or this.parents does not work.

jQuery('.link-container a').live('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
alert(this.parent);
});

Any ideas on how to get this?.

Regards,
John

Answer 1

Your using it wrong. You have to wrap this in a jQ object. And parent is a function so you must call it as parent():

$('.link-container a').on('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    alert($(this).parent());
});