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 <igguan...@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.bellevi...@gmail.com>*wrote:
>
>
> From: Michel Belleville <michel.bellevi...@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 : $('#item1-1').parent().attr('id')
> This should "tadaaa".
>
> Michel Belleville
>
>
> 2009/11/27 ximo wallas
> <igguan...@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=igguan...@yahoo.com>
> >
>
>> Hello there, after too much sarching I have almost give it up with the
>> following.
>> I have a list with another list nested:
>> <ul>
>> <li id="item1">Item 1
>> <ul>
>> <li id="item1-1">
>> Item 1 - 1
>> </li>
>> <li id="item1-2">
>> Item 1 - 2
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>> </li>
>> </ul>
>> Let's say I know the ID of "item1-2" or "item1-1" how can I get the id of
>> the li (item1)?
>> I have tried with:
>> alert($('#item1-1').parentNode().id)
>> But it gaves me an error, maybe just because it is an aberration...
>>
>>
>>
>
>
