JQuery - add click event to LI or SPAN elements?

Question

I am trying to add a click event to a LI element but it is not firing in the page. My page markup looks like:

Answer 1

I had a similar problem where I was using a popup list that the user selected. Basically the user clicks an input box and a ul is revealed.

This worked great with a 500ms animation, but when switching to 250ms the scrolling down animation was too fast and apparently the click event never fired on a li.