jQuery getting ID of clicked link

Question

I have a modal box in jQuery which I have created to display some embed code. I want the script to take the id of the link that is clicked but I can\'t

Answer 1

The other answers are trying to fix the click() function, but your issue is actually with the generateCode function.

You need to pass the clicked element to the generateCode function:

$('.openembed').click(function () {
    generateCode(this);

And modify generateCode:

function generateCode(element) {
    var answerid = element.id;

Of course var answerid = $('.openembed').attr('id'); within the click code isn't correct either, but it doesn't seem to do anything anyway.