Question

I have an element inside a div that is “draggable” jquery ui. And I am trying to remove that entire div. My element looks like

<div class="draggable">
    <img ...>
    <div class="delete">CLICK TO DELETE</div>
</div>

And it has a draggable event on it. And I want it so when you click on the delete button it deletes that entire div. But it does not seem to work. I’ve tried $(this).parent/parents.remove and neither of those work, they don’t even return any kind of an object (console.log($(this).parent()); returns []).

My delete function looks like

// Delete Image functionality
    $('.delete').click(function() {

        $this.parent().draggable('disable');

        // Post the DELETE request
        $.get('delete/', { d: '1' , id:photo }, function(data) {
            if (data == "true") {
                $(this).parent().remove();
            } else {
                alert("An error has been encountered, please try again later");
            }
        });
    });

Any idea what’s up?

Answer 1

The problem is that, within the callback to $.get, this is set to the jqXHR instance. So you can do, for instance, this.responseText, should you wish. Obviously it is no longer set to the element.

You need to give the element an alias that isn’t overwritten:

$('.delete').click(function() {
    var clicked = this;
    $this.parent().draggable('disable');

    // Post the DELETE request
    $.get('delete/', {d:'1',id:photo}, function(data) {
        if(data == "true") {
            $(clicked).parent().remove();
        }else{
            alert("An error has been encountered, please try again later");
        }
    });
});

There are various other ways you could do it: the most efficient would be var parent = $(this).parent().draggable('disable') (presuming draggable is chainable, which it probably is). Another option would be to go by the event’s currentTarget property:

$('.delete').click(function(event) {
    // ...
            $(e.currentTarget).parent().remove();

I think the version I’ve given is probably the clearest at showing why this didn’t work for you, which is why I chose it.