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HTML

<span class="spanclick">
        <a href="#" title="Remove" id="159" class="remove">159</a>
        <input type="hidden" name="t[1][p][]" value="159">
</span>

CSS

.spanclick
{
    padding:20px;
    background-color:red;
}

JavaScript

$('.spanclick').click(function(event){
    if(event.srcElement.className == 'spanclick') /*funny with hrefs*/
    {
        alert('span clicked');
    }
});