jQuery child of clicked element

Question

I\'ve got a list of links which have a click event attached to them, I need to get the ID from the child A link. So in the example below if I clicked the first list element

Answer 1

To make your code a little neater, lets bind triggers with functions like so: (i suggest you give your UL an ID so it is specific to only elements within that UL)

$('ul li').bind('click', getAnchorId);

The function that is called (getAnchorId) gets the ID attribute of the children element (a) of the clicked element (ul li) and applies it to a variable (anchorId), and to show its getting the correct info I put the result in an alert.

function getAnchorId() {
    var anchorId = $(this).children('a').attr('id');
    alert(anchorId);
}

Now u can do what ever u wish with that variable :)

hope this helps :)