[jQuery] Removing an emptied paragraph from the DOM

[Bruce MacKay]

Hello folks,

I have an application which removes an image from within a paragraph, 
wraps that image in a div and places it in front of the paragraph.

I now want to remove that paragraph.

Why doesn't the following use of remove() not achieve my 
objective?  I've tested the length - it is 0, yet the remove doesn't happen.

Thanks, Bruce


var parnt = $(this).parent();           //the parent p tag containing 
the image to be processed
$(this).insertBefore(p).wrap("<div class='buggybox clearfix' id='g" + 
i +"'></div>");

if (parnt.length=0) {
        parnt.remove();
}