jQuery get the id/value of element after click function

Question

How can I alert the id of the

item clicked?

  
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Answer 1

If you change your html code a bit - remove the ids

  
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Then the jquery code you want is...

$("#myid li").click(function() {
    alert($(this).prevAll().length+1);
});​

You don't need to place any ids, just keep on adding li items.

Take a look at demo

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