Find out if an elements containing DIV is hidden 1

[ashorton]

I have a collapsable tree view where each section can be either hidden or visible. I do this using several DIV tags. Within each DIV there is a series of input elements. When I access an element within a section using Javascript I need to know if the section (DIV) that contains the element is hidden.

Any Idea's

 

[iza]

(xxx.divname.style.yyy=="hidden&quot is true if the div is hidden, false otherwise
yyy is "visible" or "visibility" depending on the browser you're targetting
xxx depends on which browser you're targetting
also some ns version won't recognise "hidden" but "hide"
also, you can use display instead of visibility
actually, all this depends on what you used to hide/show the divs
use the same syntax (display or visible or visibility) you used to hide/show

 

[spreston]

how do you determine (in Netscape) which is <div> is the container, I have a similar issue... for example ...

<div>
<div>
<input>
</div>
</div>

I can it be determined which div is the parent of the input?? and then possibly which div is the parent of the input's parent div??