Question

I’m trying to check if the li element that is clicked has the ‘update’ class.

$('li.category').live('click', function(event)
{
    //my code here
});

I tried:

if (($(event.target).hasClass('update')))

if ($(this).hasClass('update'))

which both always return false.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

if ($(this).hasClass('update')) should work just fine. Are you sure the element you are testing has the update class? Here’s an example:

http://jsfiddle.net/yv3ba/