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HTML

<figure>
    <img src="/path/name.jpg" alt="name" />
    <figcaption>My description here</figcaption>
</figure>
    
<figure>
    <img src="/path/name.jpg" alt="name" />
</figure>

CSS

figure {
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    display: block;
    background: yellow;
}

JavaScript

$("figcaption").closest("figure").css({background: "red"});