how to access the parent tag using javascript from inside a child tag

Question

Say I have the following code

<div id='div1'>
 <div onclick="f1(parent div tag)">
   hello
 </div>
</div>

I think my code is clear. Here I want to access the <div> with id 'div1' (or say the id of it if available) to send it as a parameter to the JavaScript function f1(). How can I do It?

I am getting no reference for exactly this problem from anywhere else. Please help me out.

do you want to do it through pure javascript or jQuery will do? — Ganesh Pandhere, Sep 19 '13 at 04:39
aren't you looking for this? http://stackoverflow.com/a/6856895/728610 — Arvind Sridharan, Sep 19 '13 at 04:41

Siva Charan · Answer 1 · 2013-09-19T04:58:22.847

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Use parentNode

    alert(obj.parentNode.getAttribute('id'));

Refer LIVE DEMO

edited Sep 19 '13 at 04:58

answered Sep 19 '13 at 04:42

Siva Charan

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how to access the parent tag using javascript from inside a child tag

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