In a HTML unordered list, get the list item that was clicked (UL > LI) Code copied from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3545341/jquery-get-the-id-value-of-li-after-click-function

Find clicked LI element

$("ul.nav li").click(function () {
  alert(this.id); // id of clicked li by directly accessing DOMElement property
  alert($(this).attr('id')); // jQuery's .attr() method, same but more verbose
  alert($(this).html()); // gets innerHTML of clicked li
  alert($(this).text()); // gets text contents of clicked li
});

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