I want to remove only the parent tag I clicked

Question

There are 3 buttons in my code.

One is to add more files. ( .btn-plus ) One is to remove the one added. ( .btn-minus ) One is to reset the file. ( .btn-reset )

I could add more input with ( .btn-plus ) button.

How could I delete only the one I click among every input I add with ( .btn-plus )?

 $(".btn-plus").click(function(){ $('.board-box__attachments').prepend('<li><div class="th">files</div><div class="td"><input type="file"><button class="btn btn-minus"> - </button></div></li>'); return false; }) $(".btn-minus").click(function(){ $(this).nextUntil('li').remove() }) $(".btn-reset").click(function(){ $(".board-box__attachments input").value = ""; })

 li { width: 60%; background: lightblue; list-style: none; padding: 0.5em; border-bottom: 1px solid white; }.th { width: 100px; float: left; }.td { width: 100%; }

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <ul class="board-box__attachments"> <li> <div class="th">files</div> <div class="td"> <input type="file"> <button class="btn btn-plus"> + </button> <button class="btn-reset">Reset</button> </div> </li> </ul>

Answer 1

You have to use on() to attach event to dynamically added element. Then use closest() to find currently clicked element's parent.

$("body").on("click", ".btn-minus", function(){
      $(this).closest('li').remove();
})

Answer 2

There are 2 issues with you code:

1. Your element which contains btn-minus is being created dynamically. So the click event would not work instead you need to use on event.

   $(".btn-minus").click(function(){

So instead of this you need to use

$(document).on('click', '.btn-minus', function() {

2. Also you need to use following code to remove element.

$(this).closest('li').remove();

Please see the updated JSFiddle

Answer 3

$(this).nextUntil("li") doesn't match anything. It only searches siblings of this , and the button doesn't have any li siblings. If you want to select the li containing the button, use $(this).closest("li") .

You also need to use event delegation to bind an event handler to dynamically-created elements.

 $(".btn-plus").click(function(){ $('.board-box__attachments').prepend('<li><div class="th">files</div><div class="td"><input type="file"><button class="btn btn-minus"> - </button></div></li>'); return false; }) $(".board-box__attachments").on("click", ".btn-minus", function(){ $(this).closest("li").remove() })

 li { width: 50%; background: lightblue; list-style: none; padding: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid white; }.th { width: 100px; float: left; }.td { width: 100%; }

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <ul class="board-box__attachments"> <li> <div class="th">files</div> <div class="td"> <input type="file"> <button class="btn btn-plus"> + </button> </div> </li> </ul>

Answer 4

Here you can creating elements dynamically so once the page is loaded, browser has no knowledge of '.btn-minus'

Try this:

$(document).on('click', '.btn-minus', function(){
    $(this).closest('li').remove()
})

Hope this helps!