Passing data to a jQuery click() function
If you insist on using old-school HTML 4.01 or XHTML:
$('.removeAction').click(function() { // Don’t do anything crazy like `$(this).attr('id')`. // You can get the `id` attribute value by simply accessing the property: this.id; // If you’re prefixing it with 'my' to validate as HTML 4.01, you can get just the ID like this: this.id.replace('my', '');});By the way, in HTML5, the id attribute can start with a number or even be a number.
Then again, if you’re using HTML5 anyway, you’re probably better off using custom data attributes, like so:
<span class="action removeAction" data-id="1">Remove</span>
$(this) within your click function represents the clicked element
$(".removeAction").click(function() { //AJAX here that needs to know the ID alert($(this).attr('id')); }
The following code will get you the ID of the clicked span. Using the ID isn't perfect, but it will work.
$(".removeAction").click(function() { alert($(this).attr("id"));});