Right, my mistake. Only in the <body> onclick handler 'this' refers to
window. It's been such a long time since I last used inline handlers
that I'd forgotten :)
On Jan 24, 9:55 pm, candlerb <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.
