Re: [jQuery] Problem traversing up list

Well, that must mean that the parent has no id, which is exactly the case :

<ul>
    <li id="item1">Item 1 <= $('#item1-1').parent().parent()
      <ul> <= $('#item1-1').parent()
        <li id="item1-1"> <= $('#item1-1')
          Item 1 - 1
        </li>
        <li id="item1-2">
          Item 1 - 2
        </li>
      </ul>
    </li>
</ul>

Or you can do this in a better way :
$('#item1-1').parents('li:first').attr('id')

Michel Belleville

2009/11/27 ximo wallas <igguana26@yahoo.com>

It returns an empty string, so it alerts, but nothing... I will show you all the code: First I get the id of the element via URL with the URL param plugin: (It works, if I do an alert it returns the right stuff) var target = $.url.param("target"); alert($("#"+target).parent().attr('id')); This alerts nothing !! --- On Fri, 11/27/09, Michel Belleville <michel.belleville@gmail.com> wrote: From: Michel Belleville <michel.belleville@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [jQuery] Problem traversing up list To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 11:10 AM You don't need to use .parentNode() (vanilla DOM) but .parent() (jQuery flavor). Then you can access any attribute using .attr(). So instead try : $('#item1-1').parent().attr('id') This should "tadaaa". Michel Belleville 2009/11/27 ximo wallas <igguana26@yahoo.com> Hello there, after too much sarching I have almost give it up with the following. I have a list with another list nested: <ul>     <li id="item1">Item 1       <ul>         <li id="item1-1">           Item 1 - 1         </li>         <li id="item1-2">           Item 1 - 2         </li>       </ul>     </li> </ul> Let's say I know the ID of "item1-2" or "item1-1" how can I get the id of the li (item1)? I have tried with: alert($('#item1-1').parentNode().id) But it gaves me an error, maybe just because it is an aberration...