I think your issue is one equal sign instead of two equals signs.
Basically, you are trying to set the length (which is read-only).
That likely evaluates to false when it fails. Change your test to:
parnt.length==0
On Jun 20, 7:20 am, Bruce MacKay <b.mac...@massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I have an application which removes an image from within a paragraph,
> wraps that image in a div and places it in front of the paragraph.
>
> I now want to remove that paragraph.
>
> Why doesn't the following use of remove() not achieve my
> objective? I've tested the length - it is 0, yet the remove doesn't happen.
>
> Thanks, Bruce
>
> var parnt = $(this).parent(); //the parent p tag containing
> the image to be processed
> $(this).insertBefore(p).wrap("<div class='buggybox clearfix' id='g" +
> i +"'></div>");
>
> if (parnt.length=0) {
> parnt.remove();
>
>
>
> }
