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January 16, 2016 05:49
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traverse dom upwards to find an element by it's data attribute
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| var findParentAttribute = function(id, ctx) { | |
| if (ctx.hasAttribute(id)) { | |
| return ctx.getAttribute(id); | |
| } else { | |
| return this.findParentAttribute(id, ctx.parentElement) | |
| } | |
| return false | |
| } | |
| findParentAttribute('foo', document.querySelector('div').parentElement) // will traverse dom to find parent element with data attribute |
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