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HTML

<div class="outer">

<div class="foo bar"></div>

</div>

<div clas="bar"></div>

CSS

div {
    border: 1px solid #ccc;   
    width: 10px;
    height: 10px;
}

JavaScript

console.log(!!$('.bar:first').closest('.outer').length);