jquery: get id from class selector

Question

Is there any way that I can get the id of an element from something like:

Some text


        

Answer 1

When you add a click event, this returns the element that has been clicked. So you can just use this.id;

$(".test").click(function(){
   alert(this.id); 
});

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/jonathon/rfbrp/