Question

I have HTML like this:

<div id="signbtn">
    <a class="btnsignin" href="signin.php">Admin</a>
</div>

How do I find the class of the anchor tag embedded inside the div with id="signbtn".

I need this to be able to assign a different class to the anchor tag only if has "btnsignin" class.

Answer 1

You could use the .attr() function:

var class = $('#signbtn a').attr('class');

and to assign a different class to an anchor with the btnsignin class inside an element with id="signbtn":

$('#signbtn a.btnsignin').attr('class', 'some_new_class');