I must be missing something quite important, I have been using .parent().parent().parent().. etc to traverse down the DOM and .next().next() to traverse up the DOM.
I know this is wrong and that I need something more reliable, I need a selector that will traverse from the clicked element $(this) down the DOM to see if the element clicked is within an element with a class of "last".
div.last > div > table > tr > td > a[THE ITEM CLICKED is in the element last]
and
div > div > table > tr > td > a[THE ITEM CLICKED is not in the element last]
then if the result has length
var isWithinLastRow = [amazingSelector].length;
do something else in this case.
HTML:-
<div class="last">
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<a>Test</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<a>Test</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
JS:-
jQuery(function($){
$("a").on("click",function(){
if($(this).closest(".last").length>0)
{
alert("Clicked anchor with div parent class as last");
}
});
});