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How to get which link was clicked in jQuery

I want to get the text $(el).text() from a block of multiple links and assign it to HTML input.
I'm using Laravel and Jquery.
My Blade template is a separate component that is generated from some data.
<div class="some-class" id="some-id">
<ol>
#foreach ($data as $el)
<li>
{{ $el['name'] }}
</li>
#endforeach
</ol>
</div>
Then I'm looking at how to catch the click of the link, get the text from it, and pass it to the input.
My jQuery code looking like:
$('#some-id > a').on('click', function () {
console.log(this.text());
})
From multiple sources found that the way above ^ should be working, but for me, it doesn't even understand that I have clicked.
Maybe is there another way to get the clicked link name?
Thank you.

Change your jquery selector to this:
$('#some-id ol li a')
Right now you are trying to select a elements that their parent element is #some-id, which is not the case. There is a difference between Children of an element (div > p) and Descendants of an element (div p).

The #AlwaysHelping comment was the one I was looking for.
$(document).on('click', '#some-id a', function () {console.log($(this).text());})

Find element above another using jQuery

I'm trying to find the element using jQuery from the following html.
<ul class="gdl-toggle-box">
<li class="">
<h2 class="toggle-box-title"><span class="toggle-box-icon"></span>Volunteer Form</h2>
<div class="toggle-box-content" style="">
</div>
</li>
</ul>
What I'm looking to do is when the h2 is clicked find the li above the h2 add a class active to it. Tried a few different calls but no luck.
EDIT
The biggest issue is that there are multiple toggle boxes on a page so something like this works on pages with a single toggle but pages with multiple the result is they all open together.
var gdl_toggle_box = jQuery('ul.gdl-toggle-box');
gdl_toggle_box.find('li').each(function(){
jQuery(this).addClass('item');
});
gdl_toggle_box.find('li').not('.active').each(function(){
jQuery(this).children('.toggle-box-content').css('display', 'none');
});
gdl_toggle_box.find('h2').click(function(){
if( jQuery('.item').hasClass('active') ){
jQuery('.item').removeClass('active').children('.toggle-box-content').slideUp();
}else{
jQuery('.item').addClass('active').children('.toggle-box-content').slideDown();
}
});

You can use closest.
closest will match the first parent element that matches the selector traversing up the DOM tree.
Demo
$('h2.toggle-box-title').click(function(){
$(this).closest('li').addClass('active');
});

Try this.
$('h2.toggle-box-title').click(function(){
$(this).parent().addClass('newclass');
});

try this:
$('h2.toggle-box-title').click(function() {
$(this).parent('li').addClass('active');
});

On you click in the button you can use the event:
$("something").parent().find("h2.myClass");
// And if you want you can add class after you find you object
http://api.jquery.com/find/

Selecting an element's parent
In order to select an element parent, you can use the parent() function.
Try this:
$('h2.toggle-box-title').click(function() {
$(this).parent('li').addClass('active');
});
*to be more specific, you target the parent you would like to choose by specifying its selector
Check the jQuery API Documentation here
parent() - Get the parent of each element in the current set of matched elements,
optionally filtered by a selector.

select a parent with jQuery

Hello I have some HTML that looks like this,
<div id="music_interests">
<ul class="interests">
<li >
<div class="interest inline">
<img src=""/>
<div class="interest_popup">
1 users have this interest.
Remove interest </div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
When users clicks the remove button I need to select the parent div (in this case music_interests). How would I go about that?
I have tried doing the following,
$(this).parent().parent().parent().parent() but is there a more elegant way?
To complicate things futher I will not actually no the parents ID when in the app as the remove button occurs in 4 or 5 different areas on the page.

you should use closest()
$(this).closest('div#music_interests');
//find the nearest div with id "music_interests"
//if i omitted the id, it retrieves the div with class "interest_popup"
or parents()
$(this).parents('div:eq(1)');
//get ALL the ancestor divs (until it reaches root tag)
//since music_interests is just 2 levels up, use :eq(1)

If the ID of the DIV you want to remove is static you should only use the ID selector (not something like $("div#music_interests")) as the ID selector is directly mapped to the DOM function document.getElementsById which is pretty fast:
$("#music_interests").remove();
If the ID isn't static you could get the UL just like that:
$(function(){ //execute when page has been loaded
$(".remove").click(function(){ //attach click handler
var removeDiv = $(this).closest("ul").parent().remove(); //get next UL -> DIV is its parent
return false; //stop further processing of "click" event
});
});

if remove button always exist in ul tag (in all your 4 or 5 different areas) then you can use the following code.
$(this).closest("ul").parent()
in this case u don't even need to give id to DIV tags

How can i know which class was selected via jQuery & JS

I have a list with links:
<li class="link-1">One</li>
<li class="link-2">Two</li>
<li class="link-3">Three</li>
..
user clicks on any link, then with jQuery I want to display the content of the link.. somthing like:
$(".link-??? a").click(function() {
alert($(".link-??? a").html());
})
something like this. I am not going to create X function (as the number of the links), so what can I do? I should replace the ??? in somtehing else..

You could do:
$('li[class^="link"] a').click(...
However this would only work if the li have only one class or if the link-X class is the first in the list.
Inside the handler you can use $(this) to refer to the a element:
alert($(this).text());
Much better would be to give the li elements a common class:
<li class="link">One</li>
<li class="link">Two</li>
<li class="link">Three</li>
$('.link a').click(... will be much more reliable.

Give each element the same class. Then in your javascript reference this within your function. Check out the link below to see a working example
http://jsfiddle.net/kprgr/2/
<li class="link">One</li>
<li class="link">Two</li>
<li class="link">Three</li>
$(".link").click(function() {
alert($(this).find("a").html());
});

Try..
$(".link-??? a").click(function() {
alert(this.innerHTML);
})
Inside the click event, this should refer to the element that was clicked.
You could also do..
alert($(this).html());
..but the first way is simpler, and faster.

Using "this" with jQuery Selectors

I have some HTML that looks like this:
<ul class="faq">
<li class="open">
<a class="question" href="">This is my question?</a>
<p>Of course you can, it will be awesome. </p>
</li>
</ul>
Using CSS I'm setting the p tag to display:none;. I want to use jQuery to display or hide the p tag when the anchor is clicked, but I'm having some troubles with the sibling selector.
Just trying to get the selector working, I tried:
$("a.question").click(function () {
$(this + " ~ p").css("background-color", "red");
});
to test it out. Seemingly, the sibling selector can't really be used like that, and as I'm completely new to jQuery I don't know the appropriate means to make that happen.

Try using:
$(this).siblings('p').css()

$(this).next("p").css("...")
the "p" above is optional, if you just want the next non-whitespace node in the DOM.

I want to use jQuery to display or hide the 'p' tag when the anchor is clicked
Since you mentioned that you'd like to toggle the 'p' tag when the anchor is clicked, I'd do:
$("a.question").click(function (event) {
$(this).siblings('p').show(); //toggle the p tags that are siblings to the clicked element
event.preventDefault(); //stop the browser from following the link
});