SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
    <div class="vt ddsitem">
        <a href="url"><img class="pt" id="xyz1" src="url"></a>
        <div>
            <img class="updown" src="images/updown.gif">
            <a href="url"><img class="bin" src="images/bin.gif"></a>
        </div>
    </div>
<br />
   <div class="vt ddsitem">
        <a href="url"><img class="pt" id="xyz2" src="url"></a>
        <div>
            <img class="updown" src="images/updown.gif">
            <a href="url"><img class="bin" src="images/bin.gif"></a>
        </div>
    </div>

CSS

div { border: solid 1px #ddd; padding: 5px; }

JavaScript

$(function() {
  $('#xyz2').parent().parent().remove(); 
});