You can edit / change the code and click run button <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>last-child demo</title> <style> span.solast { text-decoration: line-through; } </style> <script src="../../../jquery-1.10.2.js"></script> <script>var clicky_site_ids = clicky_site_ids || []; clicky_site_ids.push(101319977);</script><script async src="//static.getclicky.com/js"></script> <div> <p>Click me to find out if I my parent is a div element or not.</p> </div> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("p").click(function(){ if ($("p").parent().is("div")) { alert("Parent of p is div"); } }); }); </script>