How to get parent of an element?

Question

MainPage.xaml

<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
    <Grid x:Name="GridA">
        <Grid x:Name="GridB"/>
    </Grid>
</Grid>

It is possible get GridB parent from GridB

This is what I'm trying to do

//Null
Panel parent1 = GridB.Parent as Panel;

//Null
Panel parent2 = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(GridB) as Panel;

All of them return null.

Any idea?

I know the reason why it always return null, because I write the code in page constructor. ;( — aiur, Apr 27 '16 at 06:27

Salah Akbari · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-27T07:40:05.517

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Use VisualTreeHelper.GetParent method but as UIElement not Panel like this:

var parent = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(GridB) as UIElement;
string pName = (parent as Grid).Name; //GridA

edited Apr 27 '16 at 07:40

answered Apr 27 '16 at 05:54

Salah Akbari

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See also [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/53202179/789423) for a method `FindAncestor(DependencyObject obj)`, which finds a parent element in more higher level. – Beauty Jul 07 '23 at 12:09

How to get parent of an element?

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