Question

When the user hovers over the link with the class "thumb" the closest link with the class "title" should have the class "media-link-hover" applied to it. How can this be done?

I tried closest() and also this but nothing seems to be working:

$('a.thumb').hover(function() {
    $(this)
        .prevAll('.block')
        .find('a.title')
        .addClass('media-link-hover');
}, function() {
    $(this)
        .prevAll('.block')
        .find('a.title')
        .removeClass('media-link-hover');
});

HTML:

<article class="block">
    <div class="inner-left">
        <a class="thumb" title="" href="">
            <img width="198" height="111" alt="" src="" />
            <span class="media-overlay">video</span>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div class="inner-right">
        <a class="title" title="" href="">Hello</a>
        <div class="description">
            <p>Hi there</p>
            <a class="teaser" href="">Hola</a>
        </div>
        <div class="media-stats">
            <span class="finder">Found by <strong>Me</strong> 1 month ago</span>
        </div>
    </div>
</article>

Answer 1

Try with parents() and also you can reduce the code by using toggleClass().
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/elclanrs/Ce8fu/

$('a.thumb').hover(function() {
    $(this)
        .parents('.block')
        .find('a.title')
        .toggleClass('media-link-hover');
});