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Question

Answer 1

+1 A:

$("span").parents("p:first")

Brandon H 2009-12-07 05:27:39

Answer 2

+1 A:

jQuery returns such results in an array. Have you tried using [0] after the query. $("span").parents("p")[0]. This would give the first parent.

theraneman 2009-12-07 05:28:26

Answer 3

+1 A:

If you mean by first parent the one that is closest to the element, you can use Traversing/closest:

$(selector).closest('p');

CMS 2009-12-07 05:28:29

good psychic abilities. (this doesn't answer the question, but is what the asker wanted)

Brandon H 2009-12-07 05:33:18

Yeah, LOL, I mis-readed the question and actually was about to delete...

CMS 2009-12-07 05:34:21

Haha.. thats funny. +1 for ESP

Doug Neiner 2009-12-07 05:42:16

Answer 4

A:

$("span").parents("p :first")

TheVillageIdiot 2009-12-07 05:28:54

How to get first parent of span that is a <p> in jQuery?