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The following script clones and populates a boilerplate row. Once completed you will need to
hide the boilerplate row.
closest()
For each element in a set, this function gets the first parent element that matches a selector, by
testing the element itself and traversing up through its ancestors in the DOM tree. (In HTML, a
parent is an element that contains another element.)
To get a child element or all child elements, use children() (see "Examples" on page768).
The closest() command is based on the closest() command found in the jQuery library:
https://api.jquery.com/closest/.
closest(selector)
For each element in a set, this function gets the first element that matches the selector by
testing the element itself and traversing up through its ancestors in the DOM tree.
selector
A String containing an HTML tag (without the angle brackets, <>).
Examples
The following script looks up all table rows in the template that contain an <input> element.
query("input").closest("tr");
This code gets the closest 'parent' row for each element that matches the selector of the script
(collected in the results object):
results.closest("tr");
The rows could be colored red within the same statement:
results.closest("tr").css('background-color','red');
css()
Gets the value of a style property for the first element in the set of HTML elements that match
the selector of the script or of another query in the template (see "query()" on page808), or sets
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