Question

If I had something like:

<a>Content 1</a>
<a>Content 2</a>
<a>Content 3</a>

And I wanted to get the what’s in between the anchor tags (the words being clicked), how would I go about that? The links are shown dynamically, so I can’t add an id attribute to them. (I think I can’t, at least.)

Answer 1

This should work to select all:

$('a').each(function() { $(this).text(); /* do something with it */ });

if you want to get the click event on anchor tags, but only those without an id or class, try this:

$('a').not('a[id]').not('a[class]').click(function() { $(this).text(); ... });

and if you only want your action to be performed once:

$('a').not('a[id]').not('a[class]').one("click", function() { $(this).text(); ... });