jQuery - how to determine which link was clicked

Question

I have a simple piece of PHP which generates n copies of the following code:

Answer 1

Like Brian said, you could just put the same class on all of your links and use the $(this) keyword in jQuery inside of a click function to find out which link was clicked.

Here's a basic example of changing link colors on a nav using this technique: http://jsfiddle.net/9E7WW/

HTML:

Test
Test2
Test3
Test4

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.nav').click(function(){
        // change all to black, then change the one I clicked to red
       $('.nav').css('color', 'black');
        $(this).css('color', 'red');
    });
});