Try this... var answer = $("#carousel li a.active").parent().attr ("carouselindex");
Cheers, Bryan On May 14, 2:49 pm, "Matt M." <quink...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been learning jQuery and have been loving it so far. But can't > figure out how to do the following... > > 1) Find the <a> inside a <ul> that has an active class. > 2) Grab the value from the parent <li> and put it into a variable to > be used elsewhere. > > Here is the example markup... > > <ul id="carousel"> > <li class="carousel-item" carouselindex="1"> > <a href="/someurl"><img src="/someimg" alt="" /></a> > </li> > <li class="carousel-item" carouselindex="2"> > <a class="active" href="/someurl"><img src="/someimg" alt="" /></ > a> > </li> > </ul> > > So, in this example, I'd like to return a variable that = 2. > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks!