jQuery: selecting grandparents

Question

Is there a better way to select grandparent elements in jQuery in order to avoid this ?

$(this).parent().parent().parent().parent().parent().children(".title, .meta").fadeIn("fast");

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use the parents() method which matches parents against a selector

http://api.jquery.com/parents/

Or if you're using 1.4 there is a new parentsUntil() method

http://api.jquery.com/parentsUntil/