Using selectors and $(this) in Jquery Ajax response

Question

I am wondering how I use Jquery selectors within the Ajax response. My site has a feed and each main block has a unique ID, but I dont want to uniquly ID every div thats wit

Answer 1

This is a side-effect of the callback function being invoked asynchronously. When it is called, this is no longer what you expect it to be.

Saving the current value of this in a variable before you create the callback helps:

var self = this;
function (msg) {
  var container = $(self).parent().attr('id');   
  alert (container); //returns undefined
}