jquery get the parent element’s id

You could use event delegation on the parent div. Or use the closest method to find the parent of the button.

The easiest of the two is probably the closest.

var id = $("button").closest("div").attr("id");
var id = $("button").parent().attr("id");

By Keenlio, February 17, 2014

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