Question

I have a DIV which I want to be removed when I click a link contained inside that DIV. Here is what I have:

<div id="clients-edit-wrapper">
    <div class="close-wrapper">
        <a href="#" class="close-div">Close</a>
    </div>
</div>

When I click “Close” I want clients-edit-wrapper to be removed. I’m looking for a way to do this by referencing the parent DIV of the Close link which, in this case, is clients-edit-wrapper.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Answer from Huangism below:

$('.close-div').click(function(){
   $(this).parent().parent().remove();
});

This only works if the element you would like to remove is two parents up. In my case, this is exactly what I needed.

Answer 1

given your html markup

Updated to .on()

$('.close-div').on('click', function(){
    $(this).closest("#clients-edit-wrapper").remove();
});

More flexibility with .closest, this gives you the option to have more more parents or less parents.

https://api.jquery.com/closest/

For each element in the set, get the first element that matches the selector by testing the element itself and traversing up through its ancestors in the DOM tree.

Edit
(Added related resources)
Please see jQuery documentation on live()

As of jQuery 1.7, the .live() method is deprecated. Use .on() to
attach event handlers. Users of older versions of jQuery should use
.delegate() in preference to .live().

As far as I know this is due to memory concerns/issues with live().