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CSS jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Spoiler Revealer Perfect

Posted by Victor Rundbaken
Victor Rundbaken
14,037 Points

How can you traverse up then down?

I know it's simpler to use prev() in this situation but I was trying to figure out other ways to do it.

I was trying:

$("button").click(function(){
  $(this).remove();
  $(this).parent().children("span").show();
})

But it doesn't show the element.

Can anyone explain how I could do this for future reference?

1 Answer

Victor Rundbaken
Victor Rundbaken
14,037 Points

Figured it out! I was deleting the button before I was calling the function on $(this) so it didn't exist anymore.

Correct code is:

$("button").click(function(){
  $(this).parent().children("span").show();
  $(this).remove();
})