Find the parent element of each paragraph with a class "selected".

  



<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){
            $("p").parent(".selected").css("background", "yellow");

        });
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <body>
          <div><p>Hello</p></div>
          <div class="selected"><p>Hello Again</p></div>
          
    </body>
</html>

Related examples in the same category

1.	Adds class to all divs that have a paragraph inside of them.
2.	Ancestor descendant
3.	Assign query result to variable
4.	Contains another tag
5.	Contains(text) matches elements which contain the given text.
6.	Count hidden tags
7.	Doest it contain
8.	Find all elements is to set the 'context' to document.body
9.	Find all elements within the 'context' (document.body)
10.	Find tag from just added HTML
11.	Finds every element (including head, body, etc).
12.	HTML contains
13.	Hides all paragraphs then the link on click.
14.	Make all visible divs turn yellow on click.
15.	Matches all elements
16.	Matches all elements that are headers, like h1, h2, h3 and so on
17.	Matches all elements that have no children (including text nodes)
18.	Matches all elements with the given name.htm
19.	Matches all input elements of type text.htm
20.	Matches elements which contain the given text
21.	Methods to obtain new wrapped set based on relationships
22.	Removes all elements that match "div p.selected" from the total set of all paragraphs.
23.	Select more than one
24.	Show hidden div tags
25.	empty() matches all elements that have no children (including text nodes).
26.	header() matches all elements that are headers, like h1, h2, h3 and so on.
27.	hidden() matches all elements that are hidden, or input elements of type "hidden".
28.	jQuery custom filter selectors
29.	not(selector) filters out all elements matching the given selector.
30.	visible() matches all elements that are visible.

Find the parent element of each paragraph with a class "selected". : Selector « jQuery « JavaScript DHTML

Related examples in the same category