How to remove the parent element using plain Javascript

Question

How do I remove the parent element and all the respective nodes using plain JavaScript? I\'m not using jQuery or any other library. In other words, I have an element and whe

Answer 1

I know it's a little too late, but someone else might find it useful.
Just wrote a function for that.

Change this:

onClick="delete_row(this)"

To this:

onClick="removeParents(this, document.getElementById('id'))"

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function removeParents(e, root) {
    root = root ? root : document.body;
    var p = e.parentNode;
    while(root != p){
        e = p;
        p = e.parentNode;
    }
    root.removeChild(e);
}

http://jsfiddle.net/emg0xcre/