Comments on: CSS Parent Selector or “Reverse Selector”

By: Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:51:41 +0000

Shane » The point was to demonstrate how to go about fixing the issue with Javascript. You can not use jQuery if you like.

Aaron — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:19:32 +0000

i can confirm- this sucks a lot.

shane — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:07:55 +0000

.parentNode ?

Aditya — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:07:38 +0000

Yes, and this is a problem that has been around for a long time — and one that will probably not be solved anytime soon. sigh

Stick — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:54:25 +0000

Echoing others’ sentiments regarding the suckiness of CSS’s current inability to select parent elements. :(

slacker — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:43:36 +0000

Yup, was looking for a way to do this, it does indeed suck.

Mois — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:50:41 +0000

yeah, I just thought how much that sucks, and I saw this post :D