How to select a outer outer div???

<div>
<a>
<img>
</a>
<p></p>
</div>
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<div>
<a>
<img>
</a>
<p></p>
</div>
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All I want to do is using the img tag selected as $(this) to select the contents of <p> tag in the outer div??

var thumbcap = $j(this).parent('a').closest(p).html(); ??? This selects always the firs div p content.

Thank you in advance...

 

$(this).parents('div').find('p').html(); should work - however, in the code you provided there's no "outer" div - there are consequtive divs - ie, first one div, containing an A, an IMG and a P-tag, then another DIV containing the same.