Question

In jquery can I combine “closest” or Parents() with “hasClass”, so it will give me a closest element with given class, if it exists on a page?

var matchingDiv = $(this).closest('div').hasClass('SomeClass')

if ( matchingDiv != null )
{
   //we found matching element now manipulate it

}

I will always have either one matching div element, or none.
Thanks.

Answer 1

var matchingDiv = $(this).closest('div.SomeClass')

if ( matchingDiv.length )
{
   // use length to find if there was a match.
   // closest() will always return an object.
}

If this doesn’t work, perhaps post some html. Maybe there’s a problem there?