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noah on 07/20/07


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find ancestor

 / Published in: JavaScript
 

find the first ancestor on which comparisonFunc evaluates to true works the same way as a custom sort the el specified in the pram will be the FIRST el to which comparisonFunc is applied.

this is, this function considers me to be my own first ancestor :)

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  1. /****************************************************************
  2.   ** Find Ancestor for which a function returns true
  3.   ****************************************************************/
  4.  findAncestor: function ( el, comparisonFunc ) {
  5.     if (comparisonFunc(el) == true) return el;
  6.     else if (el.parentNode) {
  7.       return arguments.callee(el.parentNode, comparisonFunc);
  8.     }
  9.     else return false;
  10.   }

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