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.closestDescendant( selector [, findAll ] )

by Tobias Lindig

Get the first element(s) that matches the selector by traversing down through descendants in the DOM tree level by level. It use a breadth first search (BFS), that mean it will stop going deeper in a subtree if the first matching descendant was found in the current subtree.



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Feb 17, 2014
0.1.1
Apr 08, 2013
Apr 08, 2013

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  • jquery >=1.4