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From Glossary of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) | Glossary for this source

An element A is called an ancestor of an element B, if and only if B is a descendant of A.
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From Glossary of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events (2000-11-13) | Glossary for this source

An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."
ancestor

From Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification (2000-11-13) | Glossary for this source

An ancestor node of any node A is any node above A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root."

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