jQuery click event not working after adding class

Question

In my JSP page I added some links:

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Answer 1

You should use the following:

$('#gentab').on('click', 'a.tabclick', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var liId = $(this).closest("li").attr("id");
    alert(liId);  
});

This will attach your event to any anchors within the #gentab element, reducing the scope of having to check the whole document element tree and increasing efficiency.