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

Not sure what you're asking.. do you need to find the a elemenent with a certain value for "page" and change its background?

$("a[page='value']").css('background-color', 'color-code');