jQuery, Select by attribute value, adding new attribute

Question

I have an anchor in my HTML. it has a page attribute with a value. So everytime it is clicked I use the page attribute value in my js. Now I want to set a style attribute with a

Answer 1

With HTML like:

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you could do:

$('a[page=1]').addClass('selected').attr('test', 'hi!');​

(i.e. better to change display using a css class [e.g. 'selected'] than the style attribute - but the attr call there shows how to add an attribute).