How to Use the Select Parent Operation in Visual Editor

The Select Parent operation in VWO allows you to select the container which has the element you want to change. Use this option in the visual editor when you are not able to select the exact element on which the change is to be applied. You can adjust your selection to be more specific about the container you wish to select.

Consider an example. You may want to edit the href value of the anchor tag, but you cannot select it because of the image. In such cases, you can select the image and then click the Select Parent option to find out the anchor tag.

<a href=”example.com”>
   <image src=”abc.png” />
</a>

You can also use the Select Parent option to add new elements on the campaign page. To learn more about how to add new elements on a page, refer to How to Add New Elements in a Variation.