How to get the class of the clicked element

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I can t figure it out how to get the class value of the clicked element   When I use the code bellow  I get  node-205  every time   jQuery    find   gt  ul    tabs        selectedClass   active       select  function  event  ui              shows only the first element of list           this  children  li   attr  class               cookie    expires  0        fx  fx      HTML    lt ul class  tabs  gt     lt li class  node-205  gt  lt  li gt     lt li class  node-150  gt  lt  li gt     lt li class  node-160  gt  lt  li gt   lt  ul gt

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All the solutions provided force you to know the element you will click beforehand  If you want to get the class from any element clicked you can use      document  on  click   function e        clicked id   e target id      clicked class           e target id  attr  class           do stuff with ids and classes

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I saw this question so I thought I might expand on it a little more  This is an expansion of the idea that  SteveFenton had  Instead of binding a click event to each li element  it would be more efficient to delegate the events from the ul down   For jQuery 1 7 and higher     ul tabs   on  click    li   function e       alert   this  attr  class           Documentation   on    For jQuery 1 4 2 - 1 7     ul tabs   delegate  li    click   function e       alert   this  attr  class           Documentation   delegate    As a last resort for jQuery 1 3 - 1 4     ul tabs   children  li   live  click   function e       alert   this  attr  class           or     ul tabs  gt  li   live  click   function e       alert   this  attr  class           Documentation   live

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div   click function       var txtClass     this  attr  class      console log  Class Name     txtClass

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This should do the trick       select  function event  ui       ui tab attr  class              For more info about the ui tab see http   jqueryui com demos tabs  Events

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li   click function        alert   this  attr  class

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Here s a quick jQuery example that adds a click event to each  li  tag  and then retrieves the class attribute for the clicked element  Hope it helps      li   click function        var myClass     this  attr  class       alert myClass         Equally  you don t have to wrap the object in jQuery      li   click function        var myClass   this className     alert myClass         And in newer browsers you can get the full list of class names      li   click function        var myClasses   this classList     alert myClasses length         myClasses 0          You can emulate classList in older browsers using myClass split   s

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