Question

When I alert

$(this).attr("clicked") == "aa" 

it alerts true. But this code does not alert aa.

 if ($(this).attr("clicked") == "aa"){
  alert("aa");
 }

Can anyone help with this issue?
Thanks

EDIT

Content of this is

<a id='Comedy' hoverb='green' clicked='aa'>want to laugh</a>

Whole piece of the code:

$('.left a').live("click", function() {


 if ($(this).attr("clicked") == "aa"){

  $(this).css('background',black);
  alert("aa");

 }

  else {

 //do somethingelse

}

});

Answer 1

clicked is not a default attribue .. Try this instead..

Also this does not make any sense without a context .. If you do not specify the context this means the window..

<a id='Comedy' hoverb='green' data-clicked='aa'>want to laugh</a>

$('#Comedy').on('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    if ($(this).data("clicked") == "aa") {
        alert("aa");
    }
});​

// try this

$('#Comedy').on('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    if ($(this).attr("clicked") == "aa") {
        alert("aa");
    }
});​

UPDATED CODE

$(this).css('background','black');   <---- black needs to be bound in '' ..Missing that

Check DEMO

UPDATED DEMO