Question

How do I check if this particular link with the following href attrib is clicked? and then give a background color to its ‘li’ when clicked using jquery?

 <ul class="static">
    <li class="static"><a class="static menu-item" href="/SitePages"> </a></li>
    <li>other anchor tags</li>
    <li></li>
 </ul>

Answer 1

You can use the following:

$('a[href="/SitePages"]').bind('click', function(){
    $(this).closest('li').css({
        backgroundColor: "#000"
    });
});

JSFiddle Here