jQuery “active” class assignment

Question

All I am trying to accomplish is to be able to have an unordered list of links in which one is clicked, the parent list item is assigned the class \"active.\" Once another l

Answer 1

Assumption: the UL element has the class 'linksList'.

$('.linksList li a').click(function()
{
  $('.linksList li').removeClass('active');
  $(this).parent().addClass('active');
});