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# jQuery Traversing - Ancestors

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An ancestor is a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on.

With jQuery you can traverse up the DOM tree to find ancestors of an element.

## Traversing Up the DOM Tree

Three useful jQuery methods for traversing up the DOM tree are:

- parent()
- parents()
- parentsUntil()

## jQuery parent() Method

The parent() method returns the direct parent element of the selected element.

This method only traverse a single level up the DOM tree.

The following example returns the direct parent element of each <span> elements:

## Example

$(document).ready(function(){
$("span").parent();
});
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## jQuery parents() Method

The parents() method returns all ancestor elements of the selected element, all the way up to the document's root element (<html>).

The following example returns all ancestors of all <span> elements:

## Example

$(document).ready(function(){
$("span").parents();
});
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You can also use an optional parameter to filter the search for ancestors.

The following example returns all ancestors of all <span> elements that are <ul> elements:

## Example

$(document).ready(function(){
$("span").parents("ul");
});
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## jQuery parentsUntil() Method

The parentsUntil() method returns all ancestor elements between two given arguments.

The following example returns all ancestor elements between a <span> and a <div> element:

## Example

$(document).ready(function(){
$("span").parentsUntil("div");
});
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## jQuery Traversing Reference

For a complete overview of all jQuery Traversing methods, please go to our jQuery Traversing Reference.

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