Question

Suppose I have this HTML:

<div class="SomeParent" id="BlueParent">
  <div>
     <div class="Test">test</div>
  <div>
</div>

The div of class Test is actually deeply nested in the SomeParent container. What’s the fastest way to get the id of the SomeParent class of which Test is a descendant. Is the .parent() the best way to do it?

Thanks for your suggestions.

Answer 1

Perhaps

$('.Test').closest('.SomeParent').attr('id');

http://api.jquery.com/closest/

I don’t know if it would be any faster or slower than thecodeparadox’s solution, however.