JQuery click event firing off wrong element?

Question

I have a problem where the below code is being fired on the wrong element, the code below is inside the _create function of a jquery widget called tag, but when i click the x button as illustrated in the gif below, it removes the "goo" tag instead of "yoo" but i clicked on "yoo"

https://gyazo.com/c255d8c136624c235a3af0de4ee40fff

if(this.options.removable)
{

        this.removeButton = $("<span class='close glossy'>x</span>").appendTo(this.element);
        console.log(this.removeButton.parent().text());

        this.removeButton.click(function(e){
            alert(self.element.text());
            self._destroy();

            e.preventDefault();
        });
}

and this is the resulting html code for reference

image of resulting html as displayed in the inspector

Thanks in advance.

this is the full JS code for the widget

$.widget( "search.tagify", {

options: {
    followerCount: 30,
    description: 

    `a Javascript library, consider also adding the Javascript tag. jQuery is a
     popular cross-browser JavaScript library that facilitates
      Document Object Model (DOM) traversal, 
     event handling…,`,

    name: "tag name goes here",
    removable: false
},

_destroy: function()
{
    //Tips.remove(this.element);
    this.element.remove();
},

_create: function() {
    self = this;

    this.element
        .addClass( "tag" )
        .text( this.options.name )
        .protipSet({
            title: this.options.description,
            position: "bottom",
            size: "small",
            skin: "square",
            classes: "tag-tooltip",
        })

    if(this.options.removable)
    {

        this.removeButton = $("<span class='close glossy'>x</span>").appendTo(this.element);
        console.log(this.removeButton.parent().text());

        this.removeButton.click(function(e){
            alert(self.element.text());
            self._destroy();

            e.preventDefault();
        });
    }

},

});

Answer 1

Please check the following code..

if(this.options.removable)
{

    this.removeButton = $("<span class='close glossy'>x</span>").appendTo(this.element);
    console.log(this.removeButton.parent().text());

    this.removeButton.click(function(e){
        alert(self.element.text());
        //here is the change you can access the targeted element like this as well
        $(e.target).parent('.tag').remove();

        e.preventDefault();
    });
}

I have made changes in the code please check, I have show the other mechanism for selecting the target