Remove parent div by class name - jquery

Question

I have a remove link that will remove the current comment on my page. It uses ajax to change the database and upon success, I want to remove the div the comment resides in.

Answer 1

Use closest():

$(this).closest(".aComment").remove();

Example.

The parent of the a tag is the span. The div you are trying to remove is the parent of that span.

The reason for using this is simply because it's more convenient than using parent() twice.