Find Id of parent... not working....

Find Id of parent... not working....

Can someone show me why this is not working...

Im trying to get the ID of the parent TR of this table when a TD is clicked...

the following returns an alert box with nothing in it...
  1. $('.editPt').click(function(){
  2. alert( $(this).parent().val() );   
  3.      });
the html looks like this
  1. <tr id='tr_01'>
  2.   <td class='editPt'> some info</td>
  3. </tr>

Any help for this jQuery newb would be wonderful...

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