Get document object from a child element

Question

Let's assume I have a jQuery object of a DIV element in body. I'd like to obtain document object by traversing. Can it be possible ?

Note: window.document is not a option in my case.

Thank you.

I guess so, walking from parent to parent... But I *think* every DOM element has a reference to its document anyway somewhere, let me check — Pekka, Nov 11 '10 at 19:10

score 127 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '10 at 19:11

127

element.ownerDocument will give you a reference to the document to which any DOM element belongs.

answered Nov 11 '10 at 19:11

casablanca

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '10 at 19:16

1

Yes, the document object is the parent of the <HTML> element (at least in Firefox). Find it like this:

function FindDoc(el) {
    while(el.parentNode) {
        el = el.parentNode;
    }
    return el;
}

answered Nov 11 '10 at 19:16

palswim

That would be slower than directly accessing it. Why not try http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1338224/how-do-i-get-the-window-object-from-the-document-object – NoBugs Aug 22 '13 at 07:31

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 11 '10 at 19:39

0

firstElementChild The first child that is an element node Traversal module.

answered Nov 11 '10 at 19:39

Andrew Collins

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