jQuery delete table column

Answer 1

This uses .delegate() for the handler, and a more native approach using cellIndex to get the cell index that was clicked, and cells to pull the cell from each row.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/zZDKg/1/

$('table').delegate('td,th', 'click', function() {
    var index = this.cellIndex;
    $(this).closest('table').find('tr').each(function() {
        this.removeChild(this.cells[ index ]);
    });
});