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

Something like the following ought to do it

$(function() {
    $('li a').click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var $this = $(this);
        $this.closest('ul').children('li').removeClass('active');
        $this.parent().addClass('active');
    });
});

Working Demo