jQuery remove the prev occurance of a class?

I have a class that I want to dynamically remove based on a link. How do I select the parent "added" class with jQuery. There can be multibpule instances of the class I only want to remove the closest parent.

Example:

<div class="added">
    <div class="cl">&nbsp;</div>
        <label>Add Item<br />
            <span>What to Add</span>
        </label>
        <div class="rightbox">
            <% fie开发者_StackOverflow中文版lds_for "items[related_items][]", add do |item_form|%>
                <%= item_form.text_field :add %>
            <%= link_to_function "remove", **"('div.added').empty()"** %>
            <% end %>       
        </div>
    <div class="cl">&nbsp;</div>
</div>

<div class="added">
    <div class="cl">&nbsp;</div>
        <label>Add Item<br />
            <span>What to Add</span>
        </label>
        <div class="rightbox">
            <% fields_for "items[related_items][]", add do |item_form|%>
                <%= item_form.text_field :add %>
            <%= link_to_function "remove", **"('div.added').empty()"** %>
            <% end %>       
        </div>
    <div class="cl">&nbsp;</div>
</div>

<div class="added">
    <div class="cl">&nbsp;</div>
        <label>Add Item<br />
            <span>What to Add</span>
        </label>
        <div class="rightbox">
            <% fields_for "items[related_items][]", add do |item_form|%>
                <%= item_form.text_field :add %>
            <%= link_to_function "remove", **"('div.added').empty()"** %>
            <% end %>       
        </div>
    <div class="cl">&nbsp;</div>
</div>

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If you want closest parent and the link is inside the relevant div then:

$("a.classname").click(function() {
  $(this).closest("div.added").removeClass("added");
  return false;
});

I'm not certain that's relevant to what you're doing as I'm not familiar with ASP.NET but the above is the vanilla jQuery way of doing it.

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Never mind just figured it out.... see below for anyone viewing this question.

$(this).closest('.added').empty()