How to select first parent DIV using jQuery

Question

var classes     this  attr  class   split          this gets the current element classes  var classes     this  parent   attr  class   split          this gets the parent classes    The parent in the above situation is an ankor   If I wanted to get the first parent DIV of   this  what would the code look like   var classes     this  div parent   attr  class   split          just a quick try      Basically I want to get the classes of the first parent DIV of   this    thx

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This gets parent if it is a div  Then it gets class   var div     this  parent  div    var  class   div attr  class

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Use  closest    which gets the first ancestor element that matches the given selector  div    var classes     this  closest  div   attr  class   split         EDIT   As  Shef noted   closest   will return the current element if it happens to be a DIV also  To take that into account  use  parent   first   var classes     this  parent   closest  div   attr  class   split

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two of the best options are    this  parent  div first      this  parent   closest  div     and of course you can find the class attr by    this  parent  div first   attr  class      this  parent   closest  div   attr  class

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Use  closest   to traverse up the DOM tree up to the specified selector   var classes     this  parent   closest  div   attr  class   split          this gets the parent classes

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Keep it simple   var classes     this  parent  div   attr  class

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