How to find first hidden parents

Question

I would be able to find the first hidden parents of an element to make it visible.

trying this whitout succes :

$('input[name="toto"]').parents(":hidden:first").show();

ideas about this ?

Surely you want to find *all* hidden ancestors to make the descendant element visible? Otherwise it'll remain hidden unless you recursively call the same function/approach for *every* other 'first hidden parents.' — David Thomas, Nov 12 '14 at 11:48
hello not all the ancestors only the first hidden which is the one who hide the current element, but the is others hidden ancestor (pagination) that i don't want to show, so i realy need to find the first hidden parent — ivan, Nov 12 '14 at 12:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 11:39

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Why not just .show() all ancestor elements that are hidden:

$('input[name="toto"]').parents(":hidden").show();

In fact, why waste time filtering out the :hidden ancestors, when you could just show() all of them?:

$('input[name="toto"]').parents().show();

answered Nov 12 '14 at 11:39

George

hello, because I only want to show the element within a hidden parent's div and there is others hidden ancester that have to stay hidden – ivan Nov 12 '14 at 12:36
A hidden ancestor can't have a visible child. – David Thomas Nov 12 '14 at 12:41

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