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HTML

<div title="" class="interestareascategories_chn chzn-container chzn-container-multi">
    <ul id="ul_deptType" class="chzn-choices">
        <li id="li_dept_1" ver="old" class="search-choice"> <span>DEV</span>  <a rel="3" class="search-choice-close" seq="1" href="javascript:void(0)">one</a>

        </li>
        <li id="li_dept_2" ver="old" class="search-choice"><span>QA</span>  <a rel="3" class="search-choice-close" seq="2" href="javascript:void(0)">two</a>

        </li>
        <li id="selD7J_chzn_c_3" class="search-choice"><span>sag</span>  <a class="search-choice-close" seq="0.19415735425269753" href="javascript:void(0)">three</a>

        </li>
        <li class="search-field"><span contenteditable="true" style="width: 25px;"></span>

        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

JavaScript

$('a[rel][seq]').on('click', function () {
    alert($(this).attr('seq'));
});