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HTML
<div id="cont">
<div id="page" class="someclass"> more divs </div>
</div>
<br />
Result: <br />
<div id="result">
</div>
JavaScript
$(function(){
var elem = $("#page").parent().html();
var arr = elem.split('>');
$("#result").text(arr[0] + " >");
});