get leaf node from separate branch of a different leaf

Benchmark created on July 27, 2011

Preparation HTML

<div class='headerBlock'>
    <div class='block1'>
        <div class='block1a'>
            <label class='updateMe'> </label>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class='block2'>
        <div class='head'>
            <div class='title'>
                <div class='sumMe'>$1.01</div>
            </div>
        </div>          
        <div class='head'>
            <div class='title'>
                <div class='sumMe'>$2.01</div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
 
<script>
  var $sumMe = $('.sumMe');
</script>

Test runner

var updateMe = $sumMe.closest('.headerBlock').find('.block1a .updateMe');

updateMe.text('rawr');

var updateMe = $sumMe.parents('.headerBlock').find('.block1a .updateMe');

updateMe.text('rawr');

var updateMe = $('.block1a .updateMe');

updateMe.text('rawr');

Revisions

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• Revision 1: published on July 27, 2011