I am trying to get the ordered list of the hierarchy of a given element in a “application/xml” response.data document that I parse using a DOM parser in Javascript. So the expression should return the list [‘Grand Parent’,’Parent’,’Target’] for each A tag that h…
Tag: dom-traversal
Closest ancestor matching selector using native DOM?
Is anybody working on a jQuery.closest() equivalent in the DOM api? Looks like the Selectors Level 2 draft adds matches() equivalent to jQuery.is(), so native closest should be much easier to write. Has adding closest() to Selectors come up? Answer See the element.closest() documentation. Implementing such fu…