jQuery parent selectors

Question

Is there a jQuery parent selector that traverses up the DOM until the first match is found?

Eg:

<tr>
    <td>
        <div id="foo">hello!</div>
    </td>
</tr>

to find the row from the div I am using:

$('#foo').parent().parent();

It feels like I should be able to write something like

$('#foo').firstParent('tr');

but I can't find any such function in the docs.

Answer 1

You can use .closest() for this:

$('#foo').closest('tr');

If it helps, there's a category specifically for this to narrow your future searches to: Tree Traversal