Finding closest element without jQuery

Question

I am trying to find the closest element with a specific tag name without jquery. When I click on a <th> I want to get access to the <tbody> for that table. Suggestions? I read about offset but didn't really understand it too much. Should I just use:

Assume th is already set to clicked th element

th.offsetParent.getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0]

Answer 1

To find the closest parent element to an HTML element in an HTML document without jQuery, we can use the closest method to find the closest parent of the given element. Then we can write: const th = document. querySelector('th') console.