How do you access the DOM node in jquery inside a javascript variable?

Question

I have the following html

<div id="list_item_template"><li><a href="#">Text</a></li></div>

and javascript:

var item = $("#list_item_template").clone();

I want to access the internal tag of the <a>cloned copy and add the attribute. Without cloning, I would simply do:

$("#list_item_template a").attr("onclick", "SomeFunction()");

However, I need to perform this operation on the cloned copy, and not on the html located on this page. How should I do it?

Answer 1

item.find('a'); must do it.

Answer 2

$("#list_item_template a").attr("onclick", "SomeFunction()");

not recommended ... read this ...

use .click()instead ...

$("a",item).click(SomeFunction);