Send Div id to javascript via onclick
I have a page with several div's. All of the divs have a unique id. I would like to send that id to a javascript function. I have tried to save it as a value as well, and send this.value, but that does not work either. <div class='recordElem$val' id='$rname' value='$rname' onclick='javascript:updateRecord(this.value);'> $name</div>" Here is a jQuery answer <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function clicked(item) { alert($(item).attr("id")); } </script> <div onclick="clicked(this);" id="test">test</div> Have a look at two ways