match a parent element

Question

Home to write a selector which match an element F such that F is parent of E. More precisely I have a markup:

<div>
    <p class="someclass">Some text</p>
</div>

And I need to match div element which is parent of p.someclass.

Answer 1

Not currently possible in CSS. Here is a jQuery function that should do the trick:

$('div > p.someclass').each(function(){
    $(this).parent().css('property', 'value');
});

Here is a shorter version of the above example:

$('div > p.someclass').parent().css('property', 'value');