jquery selector of parents

Question

I have this html structure:

<div class="dropdownedit">
<div class="dropbtn">textxyz</div>
<div class="dropdown-content" style="display: none;">
<div href="#" class="ocond" id="text1">text1</div>
<div href="#" class="ocond" id="text2">text2</div>
<div href="#" class="ocond" id="text3">text3</div>
<div href="#" class="ocond" id="text4">text4</div>
</div></div>

in jquery I call a on-click-event for the class "ocond":

now I want to modify the text in class dropbtn (there are around 100 with this name). So i tried it with this jquery line:

  $(this).parents('.dropbtn').text("conditionvalue");

I also tried:

$(this).parents('.dropdownedit').siblings('.dropbtn').text("conditionvalue");

but I had no success. anyone can point me to the right selector? thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use $(this).parent() to navigate from the .ocond to the .dropdown-content , and then you can use .siblings('.dropbtn') to get to the .dropbtn sibling:

 $('.ocond').on('click', function() { $(this).parent().siblings('.dropbtn').text("conditionvalue"); }); 

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="dropdownedit"> <div class="dropbtn">textxyz</div> <div class="dropdown-content"> <div href="#" class="ocond" id="text1">text1</div> <div href="#" class="ocond" id="text2">text2</div> <div href="#" class="ocond" id="text3">text3</div> <div href="#" class="ocond" id="text4">text4</div> </div> </div> 

Your

$(this).parents('.dropbtn')

didn't work because .dropbtn is not a parent of the .ocond s, and

$(this).parents('.dropdownedit').siblings('.dropbtn')

didn't work because the .dropbtn is not a sibling of the .dropdownedit .

You should probably only use .parents if you want to select multiple parents of the element in question - otherwise, probably better to use .closest (which will select one ancestor matching the passed selector) or .parent (which will select just the immediate parent element).