Try doing console.log($(this).css("backgroundColor")) in the second function to see what those background colors are showing up as.
Yansky wrote: > > I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do this. What I'd like to > do is find the first parent element that has a background color that is > not transparent. > > This is what I've tried so far, but with no success: > > $('.elemToFade:first').parents("[EMAIL PROTECTED] != > 'transparent']:first"); > > this also didn't work: > > $('#theDiv').parents().each(function(i){ > if($(this).css("backgroundColor") != "transparent"){ > return.this[0];} > }); > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Find-first-parent-element-with-certain-style-tf3429157.html#a9559119 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/