jQuery Selector How to - Target HTML element from a specific class of a BODY element








Question

We would like to know how to target HTML element from a specific class of a BODY element.

Answer


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'
  src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.js'></script>
<style type='text/css'>
body {<!--   w ww . j  a  va  2  s.co  m-->
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(function(){
    $('body.specialPage').parent('html').css({'background-color': 'red'});
});
</script>
</head>
  <body class="specialPage">
  </body>

</html>

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