JQuery and Internet Explorer issue (IE9)

I have a WTF moment here.

I work with jQuery since I don’t remember. Maybe I'm really tired and my brain is not working.

I have been working on the website since two months, and for some reason I have not tested some of its features in Internet Explorer.

Yesterday I started doing this and for some reason $(some_element).parent()does not work.

I installed the sample page on my personal server.

The code

<html>

<header>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="jquery.js"></script>
</header>

<body>
    <div id="tester">
        <div id="tester2">
                <div id="tester3">
                    <div id="tester4">
                    </div>
                </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    $(function(){

        parent = $("#tester4").parent();
        $(parent).css("width", "800px");
        $(parent).css("height", "800px");           
        $(parent).css("border", "solid 1px red");

        console.log(parent);

    });
</script>
</html>
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This is not like an implicit ad parent. Try var parentto keep it out of the global scope.

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