I think it should just stop at the "context" of the jQuery object. So
you'd do this instead:

$("table").bind("click", function( event ) {
    var $td = $(event.target, this).closest("td");
});

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Brandon Aaron


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, mike.helgeson<mike.helge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I propose adding a second argument to the "closest" method that will
> act as the end point for searching up the document tree. It can behave
> just like the "context" argument in the jQuery mother function. It
> will optimize the performance of a common pattern I have seen in my
> own code since the addition o this method.
>
> $("table").bind("click",function( event ){
>   var $td = $( event.target ).closest("td", this );
> });
>
> Because I bound the handler to "table" I do not want to search an
> higher than that element for selector matches. Furthermore, if there
> was a selector match outside of the containing element, it could
> potentially and accidentally be matched.
>
> http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4945
>
> Any thoughts?
> >
>

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