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JavaScript

brandonlind2
brandonlind2
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Posted by brandonlind2
brandonlind2
7,823 Points

Is there a difference between a parent.node and a parent in a dom tree?

I read "Inherits properties from its parents Node, and its own parent, EventTarget, and implements those of ParentNode, ChildNode, NonDocumentTypeChildNode, and Animatable."

The first part makes it sound like they're different, which is a bit confusing, because in a dom tree all children are nested within their parent, so wouldn't all parents be nodes? Are they the same or am I not understanding something correctly?

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jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points
jsdevtom
jsdevtom
16,963 Points

"The jQuery .parent() selector selects the immediate parent of all the nodes in the node set. However, since in your example the node set is just one node $(this), there's little practical difference.

This difference matters if you were to do something like $(".foo").parent(), where there might be many nodes that have the class foo."

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9948171/parent-vs-parentnode