Question

So I have some html that looks like the following:

<div class='something unknown' id='something_unknown_1'>
  <button onClick='removeParent(self)'>Remove me and my parent div</div>
</div>
<div class='something unknown' id='something_unknown_2'>
  <button onClick='removeParent(self)'>Remove me and my parent div</div>
</div>

…and so on. How exactly would I reference the button that fired the onClick without knowing the id of the button? I would like to eventually have my removeParent(self) method look like:

buttonThatWasClicked.parent().remove();

Answer 1

I would add a class to the buttons so the function does not get bound to every button on the page only the ones you would like it to.

<div class='something unknown' id='something unknown'>
  <button class="myClass">Remove me and my parent div</div>
</div>
<div class='something unknown' id='something unknown'>
  <button class="myClass" >Remove me and my parent div</div>
</div>

Then use the jquery class selector to bind a function that removes the parent.

$(".myClass").click(function(){
    $(this).parent().remove();
});

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/cXLqK/