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HTML

<li class="active">
        <a href="#" onclick="editCategory(this)" class="active" value="14-client" id=""> qqqq
        <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-trash pull-right" style="display:none">aaa</i></a>
    </li>

JavaScript

function editCategory(id)
    {
        alert('category');
        console.log($(this));
        console.log($(id));
        $(id).find("i").show("100");
    }