Question

I would like a jQuery function to know which link was clicked to call it, i.e. I would like the link’s id value to be passed to the jQuery function.

Is this possible? If so what is the neatest way to do it.

Answer 1

Sure. Inside the click() event handler you can refer to the element clicked by this.

$("a").click(function() {
  alert(this.id);
  ...
});

or

$("a").click(function() {
  alert($(this).attr("id"));
  ...
});