How to get parent element by specified tag name using jquery?

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rahim asgari · Nov 15, 2010 · Viewed 55.1k times · Source

I want to get an Element's parent which has an specified tag name.

Sample code:

<table>
   <tr>
      <td>
          <input type='button' id='myId' />
      </td>
   </tr>
</table>

Now i want something like this:

$('#myId').specificParent('table'); //returns NEAREST parent of myId Element which table is it's tagname.

Answer

Get the first ancestor element that matches the selector, beginning at the current element and progressing up through the DOM tree.

I.e.,

$('#myId').closest('table')