> Yeah, thats essentially what I want to do. Now how can I do that to > all the <li> elements without having to manually type that it for each > one?
Well, now that you posted the real html... :-) $("#thumbnails li").click(function(){ $(this).find("a").click(); return false; }); If the a element is clickable you may want to attach a handler that prevents the bubbling to the parent li element. Otherwise it will bubble up and do a second click.