How to get first parent of span that is a <p> in jQuery?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1857980

  •  13-09-2019
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Question

As per this page says:

Find all parent elements of each span that is a paragraph.

How to get the first one that matches?

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Solution 

$("span").parents("p:first")

OTHER TIPS

If you mean by first parent the one that is closest to the element, you can use Traversing/closest:

$(selector).closest('p');

jQuery returns such results in an array. Have you tried using [0] after the query. $("span").parents("p")[0]. This would give the first parent.

$("span").parents("p :first")

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