jQuery :parent Selector
Learn all about the jQuery function :parent Selector.
This is the inverse of :empty
.
One important thing to note regarding the use of :parent
(and :empty
) is that child nodes include text nodes.
The W3C recommends that the <p>
element have at least one child node, even if that child is merely text (see http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#edef-P). Some other elements, on the other hand, are empty (i.e. have no children) by definition: <input>
, <img>
, <br>
, and <hr>
, for example.
To obtain the parents or ancestors of an existing jQuery set, see the .parent()
and .parents()
methods.