title: DOM Element.Closest Child
body: <p>When querying the DOM, is there any reason why labels aren't available as children?                  </p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>var el = document.getElementById("myEl");
  var group = el.closest(".form-group");
  var ipt =  el.closest(".form-group &gt; input");
  var lbl =  el.closest(".form-group &gt; label");
  console.log(ipt);
  console.log(lbl);</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;div class="row"&gt;
    &lt;div class="form-group col-sm-6"&gt;
      &lt;label&gt;Name
        &lt;i class="fa fa-asterisk text-danger"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
      &lt;/label&gt;
      &lt;input type="text" class="form-control" id="myEl" value.bind="location.name &amp; validate"&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
      </code></pre>
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