Suggestion: new method Elements.parents() about jsoup HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks, that looks like a good idea.

It's kind of odd that there's not a native CSS selector syntax to find parents based on their children.

Might also be good to implement jquery's :has() pseudo-selector. So you can do doc.select("p:has(b)") and get the same set as using your parents example.

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Heh, well I guess you'll end up implementing all of jQuery's selection and traversing methods at some point ;)

As for CSS, I read an article once on that subject of "parent selectors", the supposed reason being that it's really hard for browsers to implement (or implement efficiently, at least).

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Just to clarify if it wasn't clear: in jQuery, parents selects all ancestors of an element matching the optional filter. So if you have nested divs it would fetch all of them (obviously you can just select the first one if necessary with other functions).

I don't know what your approach is with regard to the functions acting on Element vs those on Elements, if you mirror all functions etc.

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Thanks. I would look to mirror most functions from Element into Elements where it makes sense -- in this case it would be the combined set of all parents.

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Added :has(selector) pseudo-selector.
Added Element#parents() and Elements#parents() methods.

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