Hiding parent divs in Jquery

Question

I am having a simple div structure ( see below ). All I am trying to do is when the div id "interviewer-Button" is clicked the following div's should appear and when the div id "elt" is clicked divs from id "parent0" till the end should hide.

The display part works fine. However, when I try to hide, it just does NOT hide. When i click on the div id "elt" the alert message "hh" (see below) gets thrown!! Weird. Any help on how to hide this?

<div id = "interviewer-Button">
   Interviewer
   <div id = "parent0">
         Viv
          <div id = "parent1">
                Parent
                <div id = "elt">
                     Close
                 </div>

          </div>                                        
    </div>                                                              
</div>    


<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#parent0").hide();   
    $("#interviewer-Button").click(function() { alert("hh");$("#parent0").show(); });
    $("#elt").click( function () {
            $(this).parent().parent().hide();
         });                
     });
</script>

Answer 1

You need to stop propagation of the click event in the handler for the inner element. Without that the handler for the parent will also be invoked. See the jQuery event object for more info.

$("#elt").click( function (e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
    $(this).parent().parent().hide();
});