Ok, I found the way, but I guess I need to understand more why it works :-(
> <div> > <a href="">click</a> > </div> > <div> xxxx </div> Solution is: $(this).parents().next("div").toggle(); I used "parents" instead of "parent" because the real real html I am using is: <div> <span> <p><a href="#">click</a></p> </span> </div> <div> xxxx </div> So as far as I understood, "parents" give me a list of elements ordered from the starting element to "html" and next "move me" to the next element used as parameter ... Like if i Had another <div> after <p> between the <span> I had to move to the .nextAll().eq(1) element, the second <div> in the list returned by "parents" .. Is that right thinking like this? :-) .. Thanks for pointing me to the solution. d.