I have the following list:

<ol class="sortable ui-sortable">
    <li id="list_1608"><div>One</div></li>
    <li id="list_1609"><div>Two</div></li>
    <li id="list_1610"><div>Three</div></li>
</ol>

I want to get the id of any li that is clicked. I have tried the following code but get no alert.

$("li").click(function() {
    var myid = $(this).attr("id");
    alert(myid);
});

I am using this in conjunction with the nestedSortable jQuery Plugin.

Where am I going wrong?

Ok Further info, the list items are added after the dom is loaded.

If the items are loaded to start with it does work, apologies.

I have the following list:

<ol class="sortable ui-sortable">
    <li id="list_1608"><div>One</div></li>
    <li id="list_1609"><div>Two</div></li>
    <li id="list_1610"><div>Three</div></li>
</ol>

I want to get the id of any li that is clicked. I have tried the following code but get no alert.

$("li").click(function() {
    var myid = $(this).attr("id");
    alert(myid);
});

I am using this in conjunction with the nestedSortable jQuery Plugin.

Where am I going wrong?

Ok Further info, the list items are added after the dom is loaded.

If the items are loaded to start with it does work, apologies.

• javascript
• jquery
• html
• nested-sortable

• as normal it is working....please provide us the whole code.. – Vikas Umrao Commented Nov 29, 2012 at 10:25

5 Answers 5

Your code is working here, you may need to put it in document.ready() or need to add jQuery files. Using this.id instead of $(this).attr("id") is better option here as it is javascript and gives you performance benefit.

$(document).ready(function(){

     $("li").click(function() {
        //var myid = $(this).attr("id");
        alert(this.id);
     });

})

You can get the id with:

this.id

This might help.

$('ol').click(function(event){
if(event.target.tagName == 'li'){alert(this.id);}
if($(event.target).parent('li').length > 0){$(this).parent().attr('id');}
});

Check whether you have loaded the jquery library properly first within head tag

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
     $("li").click(function() {
        var myid = $(this).attr("id");
        alert(myid);
     });
});
</script>

Just for future reference. Although the above answer was correct for static data I forgot to mention that the elements were added after the DOM had loaded. The solution was in fact..

$("li").live("click", function({
    alert(this.id);
 });