Every HTML elements has a parent element from which it inherits properties.

For example, your jQuery Playground h3 element has the parent element of<div class="container-fluid">, which itself has the parent body.

jQuery has a function called parent() that allows you to access the parent of whichever element you've selected.

Here's an example of how you would use the parent() function:

$("#left-well").parent().css("background-color", "blue")