Hi guys,

I'm struggling a bit with traversing in jQuery. Here's the relevant markup:

<ul id="sortable" class="ui-sortable">
    <li>
        <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Vza76tCxL._SL160_.jpg">
        <div class="controls">
            <span class="move">?</span>
            <span class="delete">?</span>
        </div>
        <div class="data">
            <h1>War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)</h1>
            <textarea>Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature.</textarea>
        </div>
    </li>

    <li>
        <img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51boZxm2seL._SL160_.jpg">
        <div class="controls">
            <span class="move">?</span>
            <span class="delete">?</span>
        </div>
        <div class="data">
            <h1>A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics)</h1>
            <span>Optionally, write your own description in the box below.</span>
            <textarea>Dicken's Christmas writings-in a new, sumptuous, and delightful clothbound edition.</textarea>
        </div>
    </li>
</ul>

This is code for a jQuery UI 'Sortable' element. Here's what I want to happen.

When the Delete thing is clicked ($('.delete')), I want the <li> item it's contained within to be removed.

I've tried using $('.delete').parent().parent().remove(); but in the case of having two items, that seems to delete both of them. I'm a bit confused by this. I also tried using closest() to find the closest li, but that didn't seem to work either.

How should I best traverse the DOM in this case?

Thanks!

Jack