CSS set style to the parent of class="something" tag

Question

I have this in my HTML file:

<td>
    <div class="something">someText</div>
    <div class="something">otherText</div>
</td>

Is there a way in CSS I can set the background of the PARENT of the class named something? In this case, the tag?

Here is my code:

    <script type="text/javascript">
       function MyMethod(sender, eventArgs) {
           if (condition) {
               app.set_cssClass("MyClass");
           }
           $('.MyClass').parent().css('background', 'url(Images/star.png) no-repeat')
        }
    </script>

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3777379/can-we-set-parent-element-style-from-child-style — chrisfrancis27, Dec 19 '11 at 13:46
possible duplicate of [CSS Parent/Ancestor Selector](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1251768/css-parent-ancestor-selector) — Wesley Murch, Dec 19 '11 at 13:50
possible duplicate of [Is there a CSS parent selector?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014861/is-there-a-css-parent-selector) — Yi Jiang, Dec 19 '11 at 14:16

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '11 at 13:49

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At this point, no.

However, jQuery can do this quite easily.

$('.something').parent().css('//WHATEVER')

In the future, CSS4 will be adopting a subject selector, which would do what you need

$OL > LI:only-child

The $ would be used to select the parent or subject of a specific element.

http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors4/#subject

answered Dec 19 '11 at 13:49

Jason Gennaro

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I tried this, it says too many characters in character literal. – petko_stankoski Dec 19 '11 at 14:48
@Srcee. That error is usually associated with not escaping characters that need to be escaped. Try changing all the `'` to `"` and then escaping those, eg `""`. – Jason Gennaro Dec 19 '11 at 15:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '11 at 13:50

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no, as I know there is no parent selector in CSS

answered Dec 19 '11 at 13:50

haynar

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '11 at 13:50

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No, but you can do it in jQuery

$('.something').parent().css('background','<rules>')

Where <rules> are the CSS rules you want to set for the background property.

answered Dec 19 '11 at 13:50

Simone

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I tried this, it says too many characters in character literal. – petko_stankoski Dec 19 '11 at 14:47

CSS set style to the parent of class="something" tag

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