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HTML jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Spoiler Revealer Using remove()

Shannon Kagey
Shannon Kagey
2,587 Points
Posted by Shannon Kagey
Shannon Kagey
2,587 Points

Correct code not working

I believe the code I added in the jQuery Basics challenge is correct yet the page is telling me otherwise. Here is what I have updated:

$("this.button").remove(); });

1 Answer

Brittany Drollinger
Brittany Drollinger
6,160 Points
Brittany Drollinger
Brittany Drollinger
6,160 Points

Where the code is being used:

$("button").click(function(){
  $(".spoiler span");
  //3.2, Get rid of button
  $(this);
});

Since you are already using the jQuery selector to bind the click function to buttons (note that it is button elements not elements with the class of button since there is no '.') you only need to use 'this' when inside the click function. 'This' refers back to that element (in this case the button element that gets clicked).

So you can simply do:

$(this).remove();

The "this" keyword in Javascript is a reference that changes depending on scope/context. With jQuery, we wrap the this with the jQuery object so we can call jQuery methods and functions - like remove().