Test case for jQuery Ticket 7776
thead parent find tbody
by jitter
HTML
<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>foo</th>
<th>bar</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>foobar</td>
<td>barfoo</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
JavaScript
alert( $('tbody', $("thead").parent()).length );