Passing data to a jQuery click() function

Question

I have a simple span like so

Remove

This span is within a table, each row has a remo

Answer 1

You could try jQuery.data(): http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.data , but that would mean server-side generated js code to execute when the page loads so that you can store the ids for later reuse (your remove action)

// this part would have to be server 'generated'
// and by that I'm referring  to the ''
$('table .remove').each(function(){

   var MyElem = $(this);
   MyElem.data('id',  );

   MyElem.click(function(){
      the_id = $(this).data('id');
      // ajax call goes here
   });

});