Hilariously, I’m having incredible difficulty finding any half-good way to determine whether or not an HTML element is inside another one or not — which seems like it should be a basic core feature of traversing and analyzing the HTML DOM. I was immensely surprised and disappointed that the “hasDescendant” (or likewise) method is missing.
I’m trying to do this:
var frog = $ ('#frog');
var walrus = $ ('#walrus');
if (frog.hasDescendant(walrus)) console.log("Frog is within walrus.");
else console.log("Frog is outside walrus.");
I’ve tried to reproduce what I’m looking for with many jQuery combinations.
walrus.is(frog.parents());
walrus.has(frog);
walrus.find(' *').has(frog);
frog.is(walrus.find(' *'));
I haven’t found a working solution yet.
This is becoming intensely frustrating to me at this point, as it’s extended what should have been a few seconds of work into hours of fruitlessly googling and raging.
Hopefully somebody will post up an obscure yet simple working solution before I get too deep into writing my own hasDescendant function. I will post the solution if I can find/write it.
I’m very disappointed in jQuery at the moment, and am glad we have communities like this to make up for these issues 
//Chase.
