How to get all element parents using jquery?

How to get all element parents using jquery? i want to save these parents in a variable so i can use later as a selector.
such as <div><a><img id="myImg"/></a></div>
GetParents('myImg'); will return "div a" something like that

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• Every element has only one real parent. To access and save it, write the following:

  myParent = $("#myElement").parent();
  

  If you need the parents parents too, use .parents()

  See documentation for further information:

  http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/parent#expr

  http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/parents#expr

  altCognito : But that parent has a parent and so on and so forth.

  eteubert : That's right, thank you. I edited my answer.

• /// Get an array of all the elements parents:

  allParents = $("#myElement").parents("*")
  

  /// Get the nested selector through an element's parents:

  function GetParents(id) {
      var parents = $("#" + id).parents("*");
      var selector = "";
      for (var i = parents.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
          selector += parents[i].tagName + " ";
      }
  
      selector += "#" + id;
  
      return selector;
  }
  

  GetParents('myImage') will return your nested selector: HTML BODY DIV A #myImage

  Note sure why you'd want this but its reuseable as a selector.

• You can use parents() to get your immediate parent, and their parents on up the tree. you can also pass a selector as an arg to only get parents that match a certain criteria. For instance:

  $('#myelement').parents('[id$=container]')

  to get all parents who have an id attribute whose value ends with the text "container"

• You don't need to grab their selectors, as you can use them directly with jQuery afterwards.

  If you want to use all parents later, you can do something like:

  var parents = $("#element").parents();
  for(var i = 0; i < parents.length; i++){
    $(parents[i]).dosomething();
  }