Nope. You can use parents() but that will give you *all* parents up to the <body> unless you filter() or stop it some other way (you can pass a selector too):
<div class="wanted">
<div>
<span id="cat"></span>
</div>
</div>
$('#cat').parents('.wanted')
- ricardo
On Dec 11, 2:01 am, Joel Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a better way to get a parents parent than to just do repeated
> '.parent()' ??

