Question

I’m looping through the DOM from a link element to the closest element with class .ui-mobile-viewport. This can either be a DIV or the BODY element.

I need to check which element it is and am getting nowhere… this is what I’m trying:

var targetViewport;

// loop sets targetViewport as a $(‘div.ui-mobile-viewport’) or $(‘body.ui-mobile-viewport’)

if ( targetViewport === $('body') ) {
   console.log("found a body");
   }

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

Instead of doing the traversal yourself, you could try using the .closest() method of jQuery. So I think you could do this:

var x = $('thing-that-was-clicked').closest('.ui-mobile-viewport');
alert(x.is('body'));
alert(x.is('div'));

Now you have that .ui-mobile-viewport element as a jQuery object you can run any tests you want on it such as checking for body or div as show in the above code.