No, not necessarily, but thanks for the link. I'll take a deeper look
at that.
What my question centers around is when I put parent("example"); ...
how far up the tree does jQuery look for the "example" -- just one
level, or higher?
The key is I'm trying to understand how to stop having to write
traversing like this:
$(this).parent.().parent().prev().prev().prev().children("p.example");
If you see what I'm getting at?
On Jan 28, 11:42 am, jay <jay.ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/closest
>
> On Jan 28, 12:39 pm, kgosser <kgos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello, pretty noob question here. I have this example:
>
> > <div>
> > <form>
> > <div>
> > <label>Example</label>
> > <input type="text"/>
> > </div>
> > </form>
> > </div>
>
> > Now let's say there's this jQuery:
>
> > $("input").click(function(){
> > $(this).parent("form").css("color","#F00");
>
> > });
>
> > My question: Does the parent() method work like that, or do I need to
> > do something like $(this).prev().prev() to get to the form? I guess
> > I'm trying to better understand how flexible the parent() and children
> > () methods are.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
