1. Return Value the former can return multiple elements, or only 0 or 1 can be returned.
2. The stop time is different. The former is all the upper-level elements, that is, until the root is generally the body. The latter is known to be found and stops when one is found.
3. Different elements in the beginning. The former starts from the parent element and the latter starts from itself.
The Code is as follows:
Copy codeThe Code is as follows:
<! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-// W3C // dtd xhtml 1.0 Transitional // EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<Html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<Head>
<Title> Find the parent element </title>
<Script src = "Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type = "text/javascript"> </script>
</Head>
<Body>
<Div class = "divclass" id = "div1" style = "width: 300px; height: 150px;">
<Div style = "width: 200px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 30px;">
<P>
Add Borders to the ancestor
</P>
</Div>
</Div>
</Body>
</Html>
<Script>
$ ("P"). closest ("div [id = 'div1 ']" ).css ("border", "1px solid blue ");
</Script>
You can try to change closest to parents.