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With jQuery you can traverse up the DOM tree to find ancestors of an element. An ancestor is a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on.

Three useful jQuery methods for traversing up the DOM tree are:

The jQuery parent() method returns the direct parent element of the selected element.

This method only traverse a single level up the DOM tree.

The following example returns the direct parent element of each <span> elements:

					 
        
          $(document).ready(function(){
            $("span").parent();
          });

The jQuery parents() method returns all ancestor elements of the selected element, all the way up to the document's root element (<html>).

The following example returns all ancestors of all <span> elements:

					 
        
          $(document).ready(function(){
            $("span").parents();
          });

You can also use an optional parameter to filter the search for ancestors.

The following example returns all ancestors of all <span> elements that are <ul> elements:

					 
        
          $(document).ready(function(){
            $("span").parents("ul");
          });

The jQuery parentsUntil() returns all ancestor elements between two given arguments.

The following example returns all ancestor elements between a <span> and a <div> element:

					 
        
          $(document).ready(function(){
            $("span").parentsUntil("div");
          });

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