Yansky wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do this. What I'd like to do
> is find the first parent element that has a background color that is not
> transparent.
>
> This is what I've tried so far, but with no success:
>
> $('.elemToFade:first').parents("[EMAIL PROTECTED] !=
> 'transparent']:first");
>
> this also didn't work:
>
> $('#theDiv').parents().each(function(i){
> if($(this).css("backgroundColor") != "transparent"){
> return.this[0];}
> });
Here's a snippet I've used in the past:
var bgcolor = function(el) {
var color = jQuery(el).css('background-color');
if(/^(rgba|transparent)/.test(color) && el.parentNode)
return arguments.callee(el.parentNode);
return color;
};
Use it like this:
var mybgcolor = bgcolor($('#myelement')[0]);
Luke
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