jQuery: get parent tr for selected radio button

Question

I have the following HTML:

<table id="MwDataList" class="data" width="100%" cellspacing="10px">
    ....

    <td class="centerText" style="height: 56px;">
        <input id="selectRadioButton" type="radio" name="selectRadioGroup">
    </td>

    ....
</table>

In other words I have a table with few rows, in each row in the last cell I have a radio button.
How can I get parent row for selected radio button?

What I have tried:

function getSelectedRowGuid() {
    var row = $("#MwDataList > input:radio[@name=selectRadioGroup]:checked :parent tr");
    var guid = GetRowGuid(row);
    return guid;
}

But it seems like this selector is incorrect.

Hippocampus

Answer 1

Try this.

You don't need to prefix attribute name by @ in jQuery selector. Use closest() method to get the closest parent element matching the selector.

$("#MwDataList input[name=selectRadioGroup]:checked").closest('tr');

You can simplify your method like this

function getSelectedRowGuid() {
    return GetRowGuid(
      $("#MwDataList > input:radio[@name=selectRadioGroup]:checked :parent tr"));
}

closest() - Gets the first element that matches the selector, beginning at the current element and progressing up through the DOM tree.

As a side note, the ids of the elements should be unique on the page so try to avoid having same ids for radio buttons which I can see in your markup. If you are not going to use the ids then just remove it from the markup.

Lucknow

Beat me to it. Here's the documentation for closest() api.jquery.com/closest – Lanate

Answer 2

Answer

$("#MwDataList input[name=selectRadioGroup]:checked").closest('tr');

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How to find the closest row?

Using .closest():

var $row = $(this).closest("tr");

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Using .parent():

Check this .parent() method. This is alternative of a .prev() and .next().

var $row = $(this).parent()             // Moves up from <button> to <td>
                  .parent();            // Moves up from <td> to <tr>

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Get All Table Cell <td>

var $row = $(this).closest("tr"),       // Finds the closest row <tr> 
    $tds = $row.find("td");             // Finds all children <td> elements

$.each($tds, function() {               // Visits every single <td> element
    console.log($(this).text());        // Prints out the text within the <td>
});

VIEW DEMO

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Get Only Specific <td>

var $row = $(this).closest("tr"),        // Finds the closest row <tr> 
    $tds = $row.find("td:nth-child(2)"); // Finds the 2nd <td> element

$.each($tds, function() {                // Visits every single <td> element
    console.log($(this).text());         // Prints out the text within the <td>
});

VIEW DEMO

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Useful methods

• .closest() - get the first element that matches the selector
• .parent() - get the parent of each element in the current set of matched elements
• .parents() - get the ancestors of each element in the current set of matched elements
• .children() - get the children of each element in the set of matched elements
• .siblings() - get the siblings of each element in the set of matched elements
• .find() - get the descendants of each element in the current set of matched elements
• .next() - get the immediately following sibling of each element in the set of matched elements
• .prev() - get the immediately preceding sibling of each element in the set of matched elements

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