Get the right jquery datatable object on click event

Question

I want to remove a row from a datatable table with an on click event. I got this based on the documentation and my code works. However I don't want to hard code the variable name for my datatable object in the remove function as there might be multiple or differently called datatables. How can I determine the correct object where the row should be removed?

Updated code in codepen https://codepen.io/bintux/pen/QWLKxQG based on @David Hedlund's answer.

var table = $('#example').DataTable();

$('.deleterow').on('click', function () {
    //I want to avoid this hard coded name for the datatable object but instead get the right object when the user clicks in the table    

    table
        .row($(this).parents('tr'))
        .remove()
        .draw();

});

 var table = $('#example').DataTable(); $('.deleterow').on('click', function() { table .row($(this) .parents('tr')) .remove() .draw(); //console.log(row); }); 

 <link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css"> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.10.19/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.18/js/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.js"></script> <div class="container"> <table id="example" class="display nowrap" width="100%"> <thead> <tr> <th>Remove</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Position</th> <th>Office</th> <th>Age</th> <th>Start date</th> <th>Salary</th> </tr> </thead> <tfoot> <tr> <th>Remove</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Position</th> <th>Office</th> <th>Age</th> <th>Start date</th> <th>Salary</th> </tr> </tfoot> <tbody> <tr> <td><span class="deleterow">X</span></td> <td>Tiger Nixon</td> <td>System Architect</td> <td>Edinburgh</td> <td>61</td> <td>2011/04/25</td> <td>$3,120</td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="deleterow">X</span></td> <td>Garrett Winters</td> <td>Director</td> <td>Edinburgh</td> <td>63</td> <td>2011/07/25</td> <td>$5,300</td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="deleterow">X</span></td> <td>Donna Snider</td> <td>System Architect</td> <td>New York</td> <td>27</td> <td>2011/01/25</td> <td>$3,120</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> 

Answer 1

.deleterow will always be a child of the table of interest.

Inside your click listener, you could access it like so:

var table = $(this).closest('table').DataTable();