how to delete my entry in ajax way

[eluser]Wondering Coder[/eluser]
Hello to all CI fans,

I'm having a bit of trouble in implementing it using ajax call. What I want is to delete an entry/data in ajax. I know that I can achieve this using jQuery library, but I'm pretty novice in writing codes in javascript.

my controller function

Code:

function delete()
    {
        $item = $this->input->post('item');
        if($message_data != NULL) {
            $this->db->delete('messaging',array('messaging_id'=>$item));
        } else{
            redirect('messaging/view');}
    }

my view

Code:

<div align='right' style='float: right;'><a href='' id='del_comment' class='del_comment'></a></div>