Dan Eastwell schrieb:
> I know I can use parents to get the ancestors of my input, but this
> will get all forms on the page
>
> $(#myInput).parents("form");
>
> How do I find the one the form is in?
>
> var formItsIn = checkAncestors(theSearchBox, "form");
>
> function checkAncestors(theItem, requiredAncestor){
> var theparent = theItem.parentNode.nodeName.toLower();
> if(theparent == requiredAncestor){
> return theparent;
> }else{
> checkAncestors(theparent, requiredAncestor);
> }
> }
>
>
> my code above seems a bit much to me, and it's not jquery!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan.
Dan, every form element contained by a form has the form property...:
var formItsIn = theSearchBox.form
Much shorter :-)
-- Klaus
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