I found the solution. Whilst jRails uses jquery-ui-1.5, it is still
using jquery-1.2.6, and "closest" is a 1.3 feature.
The following works just fine:
<a href="#" onclick="$(this).parents('.setting').remove()">remove</
a>
Ricardo Tomasi wrote:
> 'this' in an attribute event handler refers to 'window', not the
> element itself.
In my copy of JavaScript, The Definitive Guide (5th ed), it says
(p396)
"Whether you define an event handler with an HTML attribute or with a
JavaScript property, you are assigning a function to a property of a
document element. In other words, you're defining a new method of the
document element. When your event handler is invoked, it is invoked as
a method of the element on which the event occurred, so the 'this'
keyword refers to that target element. This behavior is useful and
unsurprising"
Regards,
Brian.
