Is there a way to check if a div has the same class as an ancestor in jQuery?

I want to dynamically highlight a tab if it represents the current page. I have:

<style>
 #tabs li{bg-color: white;}
 body.Page1 #tabs .Page1,
 body.Page2 #tabs .Page2,
 body.Page3 #tabs .Page3{bg-color: orange;}
</style>
<body class="Page1 ADifferentClass">
 <ul id="tabs">
  <li class="Page1 SomeClass">
  <li class="Page2 SomeOtherClass">
  <li class="Page3 AnotherClass">
 </ul>
</body>

      

As you can see, there must be CSS for each tab, so adding another page involves changing both HTML and CSS. Is there a simple (DRY) way to check if two divs have the same class already embedded in jQuery?

I ended up going with this:

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  var classRE = /Page\d+/i;
  var pageType = $('body').attr('className').match(classRE);
  $('li.'+pageType).addClass('Highlight');
});
</script>
<style>
  #tabs li{bg-color: white;}
  #tabs li.Highlight{bg-color: orange;}
</style>

      

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How about having two generic classes "Select" and "Normal".



<style> 
 #tabs li{bg-color: white;} 
 body.Page1 #tabs .Page1, 
 body.Page2 #tabs .Page2, 
 body.Page3 #tabs .Page3{bg-color: orange;} 
</style> 
<body class="Page1 ADifferentClass"> 
 <ul id="tabs"> 
  <li class="Highlight"> 
  <li class="Normal"> 
  <li class="Normal"> 
 </ul> 
</body> 

      

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You can check parent () length:



if ($('#myElement').parents('.myClass').length > 0)

      

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