Question

I have one HTML page with 50 A tags and I want to create alert based on an element that i want to set inside the A. something like this:

<a href "something">click to see the alert</a>

i do not have any ideas about what should be places on the A tag. but i want to know how is it possible to to such thing with jquery.

I appreciate your help

Thank you so much

Answer 1

You could add the alert as a data-attribute, then just alert the data-value on click.

HTML

<a href="something" data-alert="Click to see the alert."></a>

JS

$('a').on('click', function() {
    alert($(this).data('alert'));
});