Question

If I have the following markup:

<p class="header hours">
    <a href="javascript:void(0)" class="sort" sortcat="hours">
        Hours&nbsp;<span class="imgholder" sortcat="hours">&nbsp;</span>
    </a>
</p>

How can I target the <span> tag within the anchor tag? There are five other similar <p> tag entries, each with a different value for sortcat=

Answer 1

$(".sort").click(function(){
  var cat =  $(this).children("span").attr("sortcat");
  //do something with the sortcat
});