SO fiddle

Test Fiddle mainly for SO Questions

by Nick Craver

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.4/themes/overcast/jquery-ui.css">
<div id="parent">
    <a class="item" href="#test1">Test 1</a>
    <a class="item" href="#test2">Test 2</a>
</div>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#parent a.item').click(doSomething);
});

function doSomething(e) {
    alert(e.target); //or perhaps alert(this.target);
    alert(e.target.innerHTML);  //or perhaps alert(this.innerHTML);
}