Skier88 - 9:28 pm on Dec 2, 2011 (gmt 0)

If you're deleting the parent you don't have to delete the child first.

event.target.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(event.target.paretNode);

You could also probably use "this" instead of "event.target".

this.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(this.paretNode);