title: jQuery hide() does not hide parent
body: <p>JQuery still driving me mad...
  Here's the problem: I have a page where visitors can leave their email address by clicking on a link inside a div (id="contact").</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="contact"&gt;&lt;a href=""&gt;vuoi lasciare un recapito?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Once clicked, the "contact" div loads a php form. The user types in his email address, then the address is checked, then inserted in the Database, etc... Usual business.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#contact a').click(function()
      {
      $('#contact').load('mailform.php');
      return false;
      });
  $('#contact').submit(function(){
      var email = $('input[name=email]', '#submitmail').val();
      var submit = $('input[name=submit]', '#submitmail').val();
      $('#contact').load('mailform.php',{'email': email,'submit': submit});
      return false;
      });
  //the close button - start
  $(".cls").click(function(){
      alert($(this).parent().html());
      $(this).parent().hide();
      });
  //the close button - end
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The pain comes when I want to add a "close" button or link, so the user can hide the form after or even before filling the form.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="submitmail"&gt;
      &lt;form action="#" method="post"&gt;
          &lt;fieldset&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;&lt;label for="email"&gt;&lt;?php echo $_SESSION['nome']; ?&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="email" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p class="submit"&gt;&lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="inserisci" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;/fieldset&gt;
          &lt;/form&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;span class="cls"&gt;Chiudi&lt;/span&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The link (and the "the close button" script) simply don't work. No alerts, no switches, no div disappearing... Nothing.
  Already tried <code>$('span.cls').click(function()</code> and <code>$('#cls').click(function()</code> (after switching the "span" with a "div" and the class with an ID) no clues. Just a link to click that does nothing. Firebug and IE dev toolbar don't even get into the function.
  Alternative solutions are welcome...</p>
  
  <p>Thank you!</p>