jQuery parentsUntil()

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This jQuery method is used to fetch the all ancestor elements between the given HTML elements.
If we talk about the DOM traversal tree, this method traverses the DOM tree upward from all ancestor elements of the selected element until it reaches to a specific element given by user.
To traverse only the direct parent element of the selected element, use parent() jQuery method.
To traverse the all ancestors up to the root element of the selected element, use parents() jQuery method.
If you want to traverse the direct child or descendent elements of selected HTML element use either find() or chidren() jQuery methods.

Related Topics:

jQuery wrapAll

jQuery wrapInner

jQuery parentsUntil

Syntax:

$(selector).parentsUntil(stop,filter) ;

Parameter description:

stop: This parameter represents the element where to stop the search for matching ancestor elements. It can be an expression, element or jQuery object. It is optional.
filter: This parameter is used to represents a selector expression to narrow down the parent search for ancestors between selector and stop. It is also optional.

To return multiple ancestors, separate each expression with a comma.

Example 1

In this example we will return the all ancestors between <b> and <div> elements.

<html>
 <head>
 <title> jQuery Example </title>
 <script type = "text/javascript"
        src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js">
      </script>
<style>
div{
background:pink;
padding:30px;
margin:10px;
font-size:20px;
}
p{
background:yellow;
padding:25px;
margin:10px;
}
span{
background:lightgray;
padding:20px;
margin:10px;
}
b{
background:green;
padding:15px;
margin:10px;
color:white;
}
button{
background:green;
padding:10px;
color:white;
border:1px solid green;
}
</style>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
 $("button").click(function(){
       $("b").parentsUntil('div').css("border","2px solid red");
});
});
</script>
 </head>
 <body>

<h2> jQuery parentsUntil() method Example </h2>
<div>
div element(great grand parent)
<p> p element(grand parent)
<span> span element(direct parent)
<b> Hello Friends!! Welcome to CodingTag </b></span></p>
</div>
<button> Click Me! </button>
 </body>
</html>

Output:

When you click the button,

Example 2

In this example we return the all ancestors between the <b> and <div> element by using DOM objects.

<html>
 <head>
 <title> jQuery Example </title>
 <script type = "text/javascript"
        src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js">
      </script>
<style>
div{
background:pink;
padding:30px;
margin:10px;
font-size:20px;
}
p{
background:yellow;
padding:25px;
margin:10px;
}
span{
background:lightgray;
padding:20px;
margin:10px;
}
b{
background:blue;
padding:15px;
margin:10px;
color:white;
}
button{
background:green;
padding:10px;
color:white;
border:1px solid green;
}
</style>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
 $("button").click(function(){
       var DOM = document.getElementsByClassName("d");
  $(".b").parentsUntil(DOM).css("border","2px solid green");
});
});
</script>
 </head>
 <body>

<h2> jQuery parentsUntil() Method Example </h2>
<div class="d">
div element(great grand parent)
<p> p element(grand parent)
<span> span element(direct parent)
<b class="b"> Hello Friends!! Welcome to CodingTag </b></span></p>
</div>
<button> Click Me! </button>
 </body>
</html>