SO jQuery Fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions jQuery 1.4.3, UI 1.8.5

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css">
<div>
    <div class="direccion-html">Foo</div>
</div>
 <div>
    <div class="direccion-html">Bar</div>
</div>

CSS

div{
    margin: 1em;
    padding: em;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

JavaScript

jQuery(function($){
    $(".direccion-html").parent().closest("div").css({borderColor: "red"});
});