this.parentNode would work, or document.getElementById('otherstuff') should do the same. From: Terry Riegel riegel at clearimageonline.com class="DIR">otherstuff Ok here is a restating my question hopefully simplified. I would like to call someaction('otherstuff') relatively. I just don't know the syntax. Something like... ...someaction(this.PARENTDIV)... Is this possible? Terry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20060807/431ca785/attachment.htm>