Re: Keep track of parent node

impaler wrote:
> rmlakshmanan@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>In javascript a tree structure node i have a subnode and it has
>>parentnode and that parentnode has one parent how do i get all parent
>>node when i click the subnode
>
>
> var arrayParents = new Array;
> if (child.parent) {
> var currentParent = child.parent;
> arrayParents.push(currentParent);
> while(currentParent.parent) {
> currentParent = currentParent.parent;
> arrayParents.push(currentParent);
> }
> }

More concisely:

   function getParentArray(el)
   {
     var parent, parentArray = [];
     while((el = el.parentNode)){
       parentArray.push(el);
     }
     return parentArray;
   }

-- 
Rob